2. The Anthropocene

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Ideas of Nature
6. 1. Excerpts from The End of Nature 3
7. 2. The Anthropocene 12
8. 3. Excerpts from The World without Us 32
9. 4. Excerpts from “Reinventing Eden: Western Culture as a Recovery Narrative” 42
10. 5. Excerpts from Laudato Si 56
11. 6. Excerpts from “The Etiquette of Freedom” 60
12. 7. Excerpts from “The Land Ethic” 68
13. Reading Questions and Further Readings 69
14. Part II. Environmentalism and Environmental Movements
15. 8. Hetch Hetchy Valley 71
16. 9. Excerpts from Silent Spring 80
17. 10. Excerpts from “Environmentalism and Social Justice” 87
18. 11. Excerpts from “Where We Live, Work, and Play” 97
19. 12. Excerpts from “The Death of Environmentalism” 103
20. 13. The Paradox of Global Environmentalism 109
21. 14. Excerpts from “Between Violence and Desire: Space, Power, and Identity in the Making of Metropolitan Delhi” 116
22. Reading Questions and Further Readings 121
23. Part III. Population and Consumption
24. 15. Excerpts from “An Essay on the Principle of Population” 123
25. 16. How Do We Know We Have Global Environmental Problems? 136
26. 17. Excerpts from “The IPAT Equation and Its Variants” 153
27. 18. Excerpts from “Socioeconomic Equity, Sustainability, and Earth’s Carrying Capacity” 161
28. 19. The NEXT Industrial Revolution 165
29. 20. Excerpts from “In Search of Consumptive Resistance: The Voluntary Simplicity Movement” 177
30. 21. Excerpts from “Overpopulation versus Biodiversity” 189
31. Reading Questions and Further Readings 198
32. Part IV. Public Goods and Collective Action
33. 22. Excerpts from “The Tragedy of the Commons” 199
34. 23. Revisiting the Commons 213
35. 24. Excerpts from “Rationality and Solidarities: The Social Organization of Common Property Resources in the Imdrhas Valley of Morocco” 226
36. 25. Averting the Tragedy of the Commons 242
37. 26. Excerpts from “Climate, Collective Action and Individual Ethical Obligations” 251
38. 27. Excerpts from “About Free- Market Environmentalism” 259
39. Reading Questions and Further Readings 265
40. Part V. Values and Justice
41. 28. Excerpts from “Walking” 267
42. 29. Excerpts from “Naturalness as a Source of Value” 277
43. 30. Excerpts from “Conservation” 285
44. 31. Sustainability 295
45. 32. Excerpts from “Theorising Environmental Justice: The Expanding Sphere of a Discourse” 309
46. Reading Questions and Further Readings 319
47. Part VI. Environmental Controversies
48. City and Country 321
49. 33. Excerpts from “More like Manhattan” 324
50. 34. Excerpts from “Freedom and Wilderness, Wilderness and Freedom” 335
51. Reading Questions and Further Readings 341
52. Agrarian and Industrial Agriculture 343
53. 35. Excerpts from “The Green Revolution Revisited and the Road Ahead” 344
54. 36. The Agrarian Standard 353
55. Reading Questions and Further Readings 361
56. Managing Nature versus Stewardship 363
57. 37. Excerpts from “Earth Systems Engineering and Management” 364
58. 38. The Earth Is Not Yet an Artifact 373
59. Reading Questions and Further Readings 380
60. Index 381
61. About the Editors 386