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Ebook Download the Great Acceleration: an Environmental THE GREAT ACCELERATION: AN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF THE ANTHROPOCENE SINCE 1945 PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Professor J. R. McNeill | 224 pages | 30 Jun 2016 | HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS | 9780674545038 | English | Cambridge, Mass, United States The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene Since 1945 PDF Book The Great Acceleration may be a blip in time, but the Anthropocene is not. McNeill Peter Engelke. Yet McNeill and Engelke make sure to highlight some positive trends, such as ongoing transitions to cleaner energy sources. Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser. You accept the use of cookies as per our Cookie Policy and Privacy Policy by closing or dismissing this notice, by scrolling this page, by clicking a link or button or by continuing to browse otherwise. For instance, they highlight that since , three-quarters of the human-caused loading of the atmosphere with carbon dioxide took place; the number of motor vehicles increased from 40 million to million; the number of [End Page ] people tripled, a large part in cities; the production of plastics grew from 1 million tons in to million tons in ; and synthesized nitrogen largely for fertilizers grew from under 4 million tons to 85 million tons. Environmentalists often perceive the risk management approach to environmental and public health policy as a tool to block regulation of industrial pollution. The Anthropocene represents a break with the stability of the Holocene, characterizing a world irrevocably changed by the technologically augmented activities of humanity. The Great Acceleration J. Project MUSE Mission Project MUSE promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide. The point with these many and often technology-based factoids that fill the book is that within a human lifetime, our impact on the planet and its resources has accelerated dramatically. The pace of indicators such as energy use, population growth, species extinctions, fresh water use, carbon dioxide emissions, and many more has led some students of environmental change to label the period after as The Great Acceleration. If we try to control these systems through. The Late, Great Lakes is a powerful indictment of man's carelessness, ignorance, and apathy toward the Great Lakes. NOOK Book. When oil entered the picture, coal and oil soon accounted for seventy-five percent of human energy use. Flowering Plants: Evolution above the Species Level. This book highlights the role of the modern energy system and the economic growth it has fostered, but pays heed as well to population growth, urbanization, migration, the Cold War, and environmentalisms, among other trends and phenomena that affected the global environment. The Great Acceleration presents the full text of J. Three-quarters of the carbon dioxide humans have contributed to the atmosphere has accumulated since World War II ended, and the number of people on Earth has nearly tripled. The Great Acceleration explains its causes and consequences, highlighting the role of energy systems, as well as trends in climate change, urbanization, and environmentalism. Chapter 1 Energy and Population. From the biology of the deep ocean to the chemistry of the stratosphere, and almost everywhere in between, human actions have led to ecological alterations great and small. This book brings to attention the history of places that have traditionally remained under-the-radar in Subscribe to E-News. History and Presence. View Product. Members save with free shipping everyday! The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene Since 1945 Writer If we try to control these systems through geoengineering, we will inaugurate another stage of the Anthropocene. More than any other factor, human dependence on fossil fuels inaugurated the Anthropocene. More than any other factor, human dependence on fossil fuels inaugurated the Anthropocene. Built on the Johns Hopkins University Campus. How can these lessons When oil entered the picture, coal and oil soon accounted for seventy-five percent of human energy use. Before , people used little in the way of fossil fuels, but over the next two hundred years coal became the most important energy source. The Great Acceleration is an environmental history of the Anthropocene, organized in four chapters that center on energy and population; climate and biological diversity; cities and the economy; and the cold war and environmental change. The reasons behind this environmental tumult are sometimes obvious and sometimes obscure. Without cookies your experience may not be seamless. Environmentalists often perceive the risk management approach to environmental and public health policy as a The stakes are high, since this is where geological time bleeds into the present. One of the world's leading evolutionary biologists here reexamines the evolutionary history of flowering plants. This website or its third-party tools use cookies, which are necessary for its functioning and required to achieve the purposes illustrated in the cookie policy. Likewise, new technology made economically viable by political regulation often instigated by citizen action has reduced environmental damage, but one could argue that this is often countered by growth in consumption. This book highlights the role of the modern energy system and the economic growth it has fostered, but pays heed as well to population growth, urbanization, migration, the Cold War, and environmentalisms, among other trends and phenomena that affected the global environment. A massive uncontrolled experiment is underway. Technology and Culture. For instance, they highlight that since , three-quarters of the human-caused loading of the atmosphere with carbon dioxide took place; the number of motor vehicles increased from 40 million to million; the number of [End Page ] people tripled, a large part in cities; the production of plastics grew from 1 million tons in to million tons in ; and synthesized nitrogen largely for fertilizers grew from under 4 million tons to 85 million tons. As Hurricane Katrina vividly revealed, disaster policy in the United States is broken and needs The Late, Great Lakes is a powerful indictment of man's carelessness, ignorance, and apathy toward The Anthropocene represents a break with the stability of the Holocene, characterizing a world irrevocably changed by the technologically augmented activities of humanity. Three-quarters of the carbon dioxide humans have contributed to the atmosphere has accumulated since World War II ended, and the number of people on Earth has nearly tripled. The Anthropocene debate represents an arena for increased visibility and relevance of historical scholarship. It is clear from their book that the future depends on the crafting of new energy systems. McNeill and Peter Engelke tell a large story in a short book, easy to read and filled with many illustrative mini-histories from across the world. Buy Elsewhere Bookshop. The Late, Great Lakes is a powerful indictment of man's carelessness, ignorance, and apathy toward the Great Lakes. Chapter 3 Cities and the Economy. Subscribe to E-News. Home Issues Regions Search Menu. From the biology of the deep ocean to the chemistry of the stratosphere, and almost everywhere in between, human actions have led to ecological alterations great and small. It is arguably the first geological age to fully reside in the domain of what we do as historians. When oil entered the picture, coal and oil soon accounted for seventy-five percent of human energy use. Sign in to Purchase Instantly. As a result, historians are being invited into these debates In addition, it argues that the scale and scope of environmental change have altered basic biogeochemical cycles to the point where the Earth has entered a new period in its history: the Anthropocene. Since the mid-twentieth century, the accelerating pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust the planet into a massive uncontrolled experiment. Project MUSE Mission Project MUSE promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide. But more than anything, McNeill and Engelke treat technology as a means of unlocking new energy sources and of extracting millions of years of prior photosynthesis stored underground. In , the International Geological Congress officially adopted the Holocene as a name for the current geological epoch characterized by stability of climate, allowing a flourishing of human civilization. View Product. The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene Since 1945 Reviews Related Searches. This allowed far more economic activity and produced a higher standard of living than people had ever known—but it created far more ecological disruption. Histories, Volume II: Books In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by:. This website or its third-party tools use cookies, which are necessary for its functioning and required to achieve the purposes illustrated in the cookie policy. Environmentalists often perceive the risk management approach to environmental and public health policy as a These debates range widely, covering the causes, implications, responsibility, and periodization of the Anthropocene. 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