Ebook: Adventures in the anthropocene: a journey to the heart of the planet we made
Author: Vince Gaia
- Tags: ADAPTATION (PSYCHOLOGIE DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT), ADAPTION (ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY), ANPASSUNG (UMWELTPSYCHOLOGIE), ANTHROPOGENIC ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE, APPAUVRISSEMENT GÉNÉTIQUE ET DIMINUTION DE LA BIODIVERSITÉ (PROBLÈMES ENVIRONNEMENTAUX), ATTEINTES À L'ENVIRONNEMENT DUES À L'HOMME, CHANGEMENT GLOBAL + RÉCHAUFFEMENT CLIMATIQUE (CLIMATOLOGIE), COMPORTEMENT RESPECTUEUX DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT (PROTECTION DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT), ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS + ENVIRONMENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS + ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS (ETHICS), EN
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Milkweed Editions
- City: Minneapolis
- Language: English
- epub
We all know our planet is in crisis, and that it is largely our fault. But all too often the full picture of change is obstructed by dense data sets and particular catastrophes. Struggling with this obscurity in her role as an editor at Nature, Gaia Vince decided to travel the world and see for herself what life is really like for people on the frontline of this new reality. What she found was a number people doing the most extraordinary things.
During her journey she finds a man who is making artificial glaciers in Nepal along with an individual who is painting mountains white to attract snowfall; take the electrified reefs of the Maldives; or the man who's making islands out of rubbish in the Caribbean. These are ordinary people who are solving severe crises in crazy, ingenious, effective ways. While Vince does not mince words regarding the challenging position our species is in, these wonderful stories, combined with the new science that underpins Gaia's expertise...