Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet we Made [Lingua Inglese] - Rilegato

Vince, Gaia

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ISBN 10: 0701187344 ISBN 13: 9780701187347

Casa editrice: Chatto & Windus, 2014

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**Winner of Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2015**

"This is an underreported area of science and a truly original story. We were all humbled by Vince's commitment to this book - she quit her job and spent 800 days on the global road to gather her evidence. She has captured the issue of the day in a way that is ultimately empowering without ever being complacent." Ian Stewart, Chair of judges, Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2015

We live in epoch-making times. Literally. The changes we humans have made in recent decades have altered our world beyond anything it has experienced in its 4.5 billion-year history -- we have become a force on a par with earth-shattering asteroids and planet-cloaking volcanoes.

As a result, our planet is said to be crossing a geological boundary -- from the Holocene into the Anthropocene, or Age of Man.

Gaia Vince decided to quit her job at science journal Nature, and travel the world at the start of this new age to explore what all these changes really mean -- especially for the people living on the frontline of the planet we’ve made.

She found ordinary people solving severe crises in ingenious, effective ways. Take the retired railway worker who’s building artificial glaciers in the Himalayas, for example, or the Peruvian painting mountains white to retain snowfall. Meet the villagers in India using satellite technology to glean water; and the women farmers in Africa combining the latest genetic discoveries with ancient irrigation techniques; witness the electrified reefs in the Maldives and the man who’s making islands out of rubbish in the Caribbean.

Alongside these extraordinary -- and inspiring -- stories, Gaia looks at how humanity's changes are reshaping our living planet, transforming our relationship with the natural world, and explores how we might engineer Earth for our future.

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Recensione:

"A heroic and important work " (Bryan Appleyard Sunday Times)

"An excellent book... Vince writes with great freshness and vigour, and her stories are hard to stop reading" (Daily Telegraph)

"It holds a mirror up to humanity and says: look what you have done to the world, the only world you will ever have... in every sense a good book, as well as a compelling read" (Guardian)

"A masterpiece... a wondrous, remarkable, but heart-rending story" (Ecologist)

"A story of optimism about how 10 billion people can in future live together and prosper... Fresh and unencumbered, Vince glides from ecology to economics, politics to philosophy, seeing it all through the people she meets" (New Scientist)

"Ambitious and provocative... brilliant" (Philip Hoare, author of LEVIATHAN and THE SEA INSIDE Literary Review)

"A beautifully human and optimistic book filled with stories of ordinary people who simply refuse to give up" (Howard Falcon-Lang BBC Focus)

"Ms Vince's focus on individuals and places helps ground the science in reality... [her] case studies are fascinating" (The Economist)

"A beautifully written book that raises the most profound question of our time: "How should we live?" In the past, this has been primarily a personal question. But, as Gaia Vince amply demonstrates, what was once a personal question has become the central question for us as a species -- and the fate of nearly every species on our planet (including our own) rests on our answer." (Ken Caldeira, Professor of Environmental Earth Systems Sciences, Stanford University)

"I love this book. Gaia Vince effortlessly weaves individual stories into an epic, global narrative, to present us with a positive vision of a humane, brave new world" (Alice Roberts)

Descrizione del libro:

We are entering a new geological epoch -- the Anthropocene, or Age of Man. Gaia Vince travelled the world to understand what this new age will mean for us, and future generations

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• Editore: Chatto & Windus
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0701187344
• ISBN 13: 9780701187347
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 448