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Facing the Anthropocene: Transforming the Relationship between Leftist Ecological Thought & Earth System Science

Jeremy Davies, author of The Birth of the Anthropocene, reviews and comments in his blog, Made Ground, on

Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System
280 pp, $19 pbk, ISBN 9781583676097
by Ian Angus

Facing the Anthropocene hits nails on their heads over and over again. It should transform the relationship between leftist ecological thought and Earth System science. It’s easy to praise it here, because Angus’s analysis is in many ways very similar to my own in The Birth of the Anthropocene…. I think that the great thing about Facing the Anthropocene—and this might sound like faint praise, but it isn’t—is just how sensible it is. It’s learned and principled and exciting and all of that. But most of all it’s wonderfully well-considered….”

Read the entire essay, “Facing Left part 1,” in Made Ground

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