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Facing the Anthropocene reviewed in Britain’s Weekly Worker

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

Review by Simon Wells

“On August 29 of this year the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) recommended to the International Geological Congress (IGC) that the ‘Anthropocene’ – the epoch when human activity has had a significant impact on the ecosystem – should have formal recognition. Ian Angus’s book is therefore highly relevant – the AWG hopes that recognition will be forthcoming at the next IGC, which will take place in Delhi in 2020….”

Read the review in The Weekly Worker 

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