Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System
280 pp, $19 pbk, ISBN 9781583676097
By Ian Angus
Reviewed by Simon Butler
“We are living in a time of unparalleled ecological breakdowns and the crisis is much worse than most people realise. There are other books that tell this harrowing story, but Ian Angus’s Facing the Anthropocene is different…. Angus makes clear that ‘a 4°C world would not just be warmer: almost all the world will be thrust into a new climate regime’. ¶ It would mean today’s record-breaking temperatures would become the new normal… ¶ Unlike many of the other recent books published about the Anthropocene, Angus’s book devotes a lot of space to exploring the social and economic causes of the crisis….”
Read the entire review in the Green Left Weekly
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