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We live in times of great change on Earth. In fact, while previous shifts from one geological epoch to another were caused by events beyond human control, the dramatic results of our emission of carbon to the atmosphere over the past century have moved many scientists to declare the dawn of a new era: the Anthropocene, or Age of Man.
Watching this consensus develop from her seat as an editor at Nature, Gaia Vince couldn’t help but wonder if the greatest cause of this dramatic planetary change—humans’ singular ability to adapt and innovate—might also hold the key to our survival. And so she left her professional life in London and set out to travel the world in search of ordinary people making extraordinary changes and, in many cases, thriving.
Part science journal, part travelogue, Adventures in the Anthropocene recounts Vince’s journey, and introduces an essential new perspective on the future of life on Earth.
- Sales Rank: #64699 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.90" h x 1.20" w x 5.90" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 438 pages
Review
Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2015
"A fascinating tour of the human side of climate change, complete with its perils, and the inspired efforts ordinary people are nonetheless finding to adapt and survive with grace."
—Diane Ackerman, author of The Human Age
"A highly readable take of the planet’s pulse."
—Star Tribune
"[An]impressive book, encyclopedic in its scope and relentless in its gumshoe derring-do. An emporium of fascinating information."
—American Scholar
“Celebrates the wonders of nature and reminds us that we are a superbly adaptive species.”
—Booklist, Starred Review
“A well-documented, upbeat alternative to doom-and-gloom prognostications.”
—Kirkus, Starred Review
"Vince has produced a book, simultaneously deeply depressing and thoroughly uplifting, that is all but impossible to put down.”
—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
"With its engaging, thought-provoking narratives, this volume will expand, or perhaps fundamentally change, readers' views about the planet's emerging future. Highly recommended. All readers."—CHOICE
"Our species has exploded into a new kind of force—one species able to alter the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. Gaia Vince’s important book provides the evolutionary, temporal and biophysical context to show with clarity the stunning speed and magnitude of the human footprint on the planet. She manages to inspire with hope while conveying a cry of urgency."
—David Suzuki, author of The Sacred Balance
“A fine and timely book. Gaia Vince shows us how to stay steady and cheerful despite the ever intensifying drama of the Anthropocene”
—James Lovelock, author of Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
“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 now it 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, Stanford University
“Gaia's remarkable journey is a unique inventory of life on earth, both wild and human, at this important moment in our history.”
—Bill Oddie
“This is a remarkable journey from a remarkable journalist... The Anthropocene era she documents emerges as something richer, more vital and more interesting than any previous era. In her eyes people are heroes rather than villains. Read this and you can believe in the future.”
—Fred Pearce, author of When the Rivers Run Dry
“Have you seen the state of our planet? Gaia Vince has. She travelled the globe for two years to investigate what we are doing to it, and this heroic feat of reporting is the result. She, and her readers, are left wiser, sometimes sadder, but still holding on to a core optimism about possible futures for our world.”
—Jon Turney, author of The Rough Guide to the Future
About the Author
Gaia Vince is a journalist and broadcaster specializing in science and the environment. She has been the editor of the journal Nature Climate Change, the news editor of Nature and online editor of New Scientist. Her broadcast journalism has been featured on the BBC, and her writing has been published in the Guardian, Scientific American, and the Times, among many others. Currently, she writes a weekly online column about the natural world and our place in it for the American Scholar. A native of Australia, she resides in London.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
The Voice of the New Generation
By J. E. Williams
Gaia Vince's book's subtitle, "A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made," says it better than the title, and that's too bad because this book definitely has heart. I've read and re-read more than fifty books on the subject of sustainability and post-human philosophy, and there's none better than this one. It's well-written, though rambles at times, but that doesn't matter. The author has hit the nerve of the issue. As a self-aware species and geophysical force, our responsibility is great. Will we live up to the demand of our new role? So far, we have not. But the positive message of this book says we have to and will. Her's is the voice of the generation that will inherent want others have made, the voice I've been waiting to hear. J. E. Williams, author of "The Andean Codex" and Light of the Andes."
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
This reviewer is pretty tired of emotion and moral imperatives when it comes ...
By C. M. Stahl
Sometimes seeing the word “Anthropocene” in a title can be daunting. It resonates with a lot of facts but also considerable emotion. This reviewer is pretty tired of emotion and moral imperatives when it comes to reading a book. The extraordinarily adventurous Vince did not do that. She looked at a lot of issues that are laden with “holier than thou” platitudes and provided several sides of the issues in order to present a very readable book on how we humans have changed the earth and what that might all mean.
As the title informs this is the planet we made. Any slightly knowledgeable and non-delusional person of average intelligence knows that. Certainly there are gainsayers but they are in a minority who either have their heads in the sand or have something to gain by their iconoclasm-like politicians for instance. Leaving that discussion aside, Vince was clear that we humans have changed the world dramatically and perhaps forever. Yet it is not a screed wrought with hopelessness. She presents a lot of good ideas along with her tales of interesting people she met in her worldwide travels done to complete this book.
Using ten chapters to describe aspects of earth and how they are changing, she met people who are doing things to improve the earth no matter how small their efforts. One of those chapters is about farmlands and she investigated ways to improve the harvests and feed more people. One litmus test of her even keeled presentation has to do with GMOs-genetically modified organisms. Despite the often shrill damnation of GMOs we do know that it has been going on since the dawn of agriculture. If we care to read the literature we know that to date there have been no studies to indicate harmful effects on consuming such food (it should be noted however that we do not have longitudinal studies yet). We also know that there are tremendous numbers of peoples in the world that could use nutrition and GMOs are trying to reduce the size of that population by feeding them. They also offer one way to make profitable farming where it has not been traditionally successful.
So we can like me, be middle class Americans and shun GMOs because we can afford to, but a Sudanese refugee living in a camp has little option about their nutrition. Vince declaimed the opaqueness of much of the Agribusiness who prospers from their hybrid plants and she acclaimed efforts often from universities to offer alternative GMOs in their agriculture departments. The problem is not that food is genetically modified it is that companies like Monsanto do not offer information about their products and force the farmer to re-buy seed annually or pay the legal price for not doing so. I get it. Big agribusiness is looking for profit but at the same time if they can feed those who are underfed and if smaller enterprises with more open source policies can make the food to feed the starving and help farmers earn a wage in the outback of Africa or Asia then we want GMO foods. After all we have been modifying our produce for about 10,000 years.
Another divisive issue that she tackled had to do with atomic energy. An issue fraught with emotionalism and less objective thinking. She addressed the down side of increased nuclear energy use and that is the drama of accidents and memories of the two bombs we dropped on Japan 70 years ago. It can be scary or a reader can understand that there are many more slow deaths-ones not exhilarating our emotions, from the carbon based deaths that occur all of the time. When it comes to killer’s carbon is much of a master over nuclear energy. The author again took a principled stance on the issue and presents more than one side.
She also discussed geoengineering which a lot of people who want to put the Anthropocene issues onto something else and rename it as an “Act of God” would agree to. But is not so simple to put her in that camp. Geoengineering is essential to solving the problem of this Anthropocene induced environment that we are leaving to our kids and theirs. Proactive measures must be taken and cost benefit analyses have to occur. We are not going to return to some mythical days of yore where extinct species are cloned and re-introduced or carbon dioxide is controlled and we have to worry about snakes in Eden tempting us with an apple. We are beyond that and so we have to look at methods (regardless of their repugnance) that will benefit humankind.
Vince had a couple of themes that echo throughout the book. On is the positive feedback loop that is creating our Anthropocene environment. She cited several examples but we will look at one for this purpose. In the Arctic we have an ice melt caused by warming oceans. The ice melt exposes decaying forest land which generates carbon dioxide which had been sequestered for many centuries. While those areas express their decaying gasses, there is less reflective white offered by ice and snow. Thus more melt occurs and the problem continues. Vince often returned to a discussion about our activities and their relevance to positive feedback loops that are not actually so positive to our environment.
She provided a significant number of groups who are detrimental to a slowing of the Anthropocene and they include religious leaders who are intent on providing false information in order to keep their subjects from acting. Governmental corruption as well as NGOs with personal interests at stake are included. Tribal conflict and simply backward thinking are no help towards coming to solutions that will make life better for those that need it most.
Vince made her book (and you can learn some about here), by traveling the world and meeting with many interesting people who are attempting in their own small way, to rectify some of the wrongs we people are doing to our earth. My only skepticism in reading of her interesting conversations with idea laden subjects is why have not some of these curious and apparently successful projects caught the attention of political and business leaders?
She also told a story that was new to me and very interesting. After having separately visited the barren island of Ascension both Charles Darwin and Joseph Hooker came up with a plan to create a microclimate of rainforest which meant planting trees in order to gather rainclouds and essentially make the rainforest that exists there today. I found this detail especially fascinating since Darwin never returned after his initial visit and it is likely that Hooker did not either. This appears to be a thought experiment that worked. I am glad Vince taught me that.
In general I agree with here about the dual sense of informed and rational decisions about the Anthropocene invasion on our physical lives and the notion that we are not going to solve it by living in caves while our autos sit rusting. I appreciated Vince’s looking at the conditions that exist from something other than a black and white issue. It was a realistic perspective of what has occurred and what is occurring and how we may stem the tide of wrecking the future.
I could not agree with every option proposed such as the notion of an “Environment Fee” for using resources at risk. It is less that I think it is a poor idea than I think of all the detritus left behind by trying to enforce it. That is if it could be enforced at all.
Finally she exits the book with a coda about her son, born while she did her investigation to create the book (that she had time to bear a son while world traveling is a testament to her drive). In it she describes how through geoengineering our world is still habitable some fifty years in the future. Acquiesces have to be made since we have not solved the problem but have remediated it to some degree. It doesn’t sound like the world I would want to live in but at my age I do not have to worry about it too much.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Republicans: Read This Book!
By PasadenaTeacher
A must read for anyone interested in climate change and human response to it across the globe. Engagingly told in a series of stories from the real-life adventure-travels in the Anthropocene by an author who writes intelligently from the heart. I wish that all Republicans would read it. This may help them divorce politics from what is a true world-wide crisis. This is a book I will treasure and pass on to friends.
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