The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene Since 1945 by Peter Engelke, John Robert McNeill

The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene Since 1945

Peter Engelke, John Robert McNeill

288 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction informative slow-paced
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The Earth has entered a new age--the Anthropocene--in which humans are the most powerful influence on global ecology. Since the mid-twentieth century, the accelerating pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust ...

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