The authors of this book have very little to say about the Anthropocene, the crisis of the Earth System, or the new global epoch, and most of what they do say is misleading or wrong.
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Fossil Capitalism
Ecocide in the Niger Delta
In Nigeria, oil extraction and production has devastating consequences for the people living in the Niger Delta, but those who flee are not protected by the Geneva Convention on Refugees.
U.S. labor brass to pipeline protestors: Drop Dead!
Conservative AFL-CIO leaders support the Dakota Access pipeline, oppose the Standing Rock Sioux campaign to protect land, people and water.
Global change
Two more radical precursors of Anthropocene science
Long before the Anthropocene Working Group reported on the new epoch, Yrjö Haila and Richard Levins argued that global ecohistory entered a new stage sometime after World War II
Book Launch Events
Facing the Anthropocene: September book launch events
Mark your calendars: Ian Angus speaks on 'Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System,' at public meetings in Vancouver, Toronto, and Ottawa
Interview
Video: Ian Angus on the Crisis of the Earth System
Dharna Noor of Real News Network interviews C&C editor Ian Angus about the proposal to declare a new geological epoch, and his new book, 'Facing the Anthropocene.'
Stop the Pipeline!
Enbridge Mercenaries Attack Native American Protesters
Video: Democracy Now! reports from protests against pipeline that would carry about 500,000 barrels of crude per day from North Dakota’s Bakken oilfield
Reading from the left
Book review: How did we get into this mess?
Social and environmental problems are aptly diagnosed in George Monbiot's new book and, more importantly, they are diagnosed with great flair and eloquence.
AWG report
Expert panel: The Anthropocene epoch has definitely begun
Key conclusion of Anthropocene Working Group report to Geological Congress: the ‘Great Acceleration’ in the second half of the 20th century marked the end of the Holocene and the beginning of a new geological epoch.
Interview
Capitalism driving biodiversity loss to point of no return
Ashley Dawson: 'Today's mass extinction crisis is one of the clearest indications we have of the fundamental irrationality and destructiveness of the capitalist system.'