Making the Most of the Anthropocene: Facing the Future
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (937 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1421423006 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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In Making the Most of the Anthropocene, scientist Mark Denny tackles this hard truth head-on and considers burning questions: How did we reach our present technological and ecological state? How are we going to cope with our uncertain future? Will we come out of this, or are we doomed as a species? Is there anything we can do about what happens next? This book• explains what the Anthropocene is and why it is important• offers suggestions for minimizing harm instead of fretting about an impending environmental apocalypse • combines easy-to-grasp scientific, technological, economic, and anthropological analyses In Making the Most of the Anthopocene, there are no equations, no graphs, and no impenetrable jargon. In his bright, lively voice, Denny envisions a future that balances reaction and reason, one in which humanity emerges bloody
Well-argued and lively, this book is a must read for climate change skeptics, millennials who can shape a better world, and grandparents like myself who worry about just what we have left to our grandchildren. "Mark Denny is a funny guy who has written a profoundly important book about humanity’s prospects in the Anthropocene age. " (Ben Hoffman, Ph.D, author of The Violence Vaccine) . Denny’s training as a theoretical physicist informs a world-view that ranges from geology to psychology, Darwin to Dilbert, ecology to economics, deep time to Donald Trump – and he brings us out the other end with hope for the f
Man-made Melanie Gilbert This book could have been titled, “Climate Change for Dummies.” Author Mark Denny is a lively writer with a terrific command of the science, but his important work feels rushed, condensed, and delivered in too lighthearted a style to make a serious impact on the climate change conversation.The scientific analysis, the political, business and social theory, and the potential forces of climate change have already been well documented in many other sources. In 42 short chapters, Denny effortlessly pulls that. A thoughtful and scientific look at the factors driving human environmental impact, and how to counter them "Anthropocene" isn't an officially recognized geologic time period, but a term coined by atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen in 2000 to emphasize that we're now living in a time when humans can have a significant effect on the nature of the physical world. (Technically we're still in the Holocene, which began 11,700 years ago). Crutzen wanted to focus our attention on anthropogenic (human caused) climate change, or global warming, as it's popularly (and somewhat incorrectly) known. In this book, Mark Denny looks at not . A clear explanation of global warming and climate change written for the general public. Global warming and climate change are among the most important challenges facing the people of the world as I write this review about Mark Denny’s new book, Making the Most of the Anthropocene (the period of time during which human activities have had an environmental impact on the Earth regarded as constituting a distinct geological age.) An enormous amount of information is available online concerning global warming and climate change and readers of this review are encouraged to discover the latest findings f
He is the author of numerous books, including Lights On! The Science of Power Generation and Making Sense of Weather and Climate: The Science behind the Forecasts.. Mark Denny is a theoretical physicist who has worked in academia and industry