The Anthropocene! Beyond the natural? - Oxford Handbook
Date
2017
Authors
Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
Oxford University Press, publisher
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Abstract
We are now entering the Anthropocene Epoch - so runs a recent enthusiastic claim. Humans can and ought to go beyond the natural and powerfully engineer a better planet, managing for climate change, building new ecosystems for a more prosperous future. Perhaps the Anthropocene is inevitable. But: Rejoice? Accommodate? Accept it, alas? Perhaps the wiser, more ethical course is not so much "beyond" as "keeping the natural in "symbiosis" with humans. Enter the Semi-Anthropocene! Basically Natural! Carefully!
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 71-73).
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environmental ethics
Anthropocene Epoch
environmental policy
natural
natural resources
humans and nature
biosphere
technosphere
geoengineering
climate change