“full-stomach”: Ramachandra Guha and Juan Martínez-Alier, Varieties of Environmentalism: Essays North and South (London: Earthscan, 1997), xxi.
“bonfire of regulations”: George Monbiot, “This Tory Bonfire of Regulations Lets the Rich Foul the Poor with Impunity,” Guardian, July 12, 2010, www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/jul/12/tory-bonfire-regulations-rich-foul-poor.
“our progress in the use of science”: John F. Kennedy, “Message from President John F. Kennedy to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 18, no. 10 (1962): 2.
“our unlimited creativity”: Peter Kareiva, Robert Lalasz, and Michelle Marvier, “Conservation in the Anthropocene,” Breakthrough Journal 2 (Fall 2011): 11.
“ripe with human-directed opportunity”: Erle Ellis, “The Planet of No Return: Human Resilience on an Artificial Earth,” Breakthrough (Winter 2012): http://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/journal/past-issues/issue-2/the-planet-of-no-return.
“over time, we will only get better”: Ronald Bailey, “Better to Be Potent Than Not,” New York Times, May 23, 2011, www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/05/19/the-age-of-anthropocene-should-we-worry/better-to-be-potent-than-not.
“We are as gods”: Steward Brand, “The Purpose of The Whole Earth Catalog,” Whole Earth Catalog 1010 (Fall 1968): www.wholeearth.com/issue/1010/article/196/the.purpose.of.the.whole.earth.catalog.
FURTHER READING
Alley, Richard B. Earth: The Operators’ Manual. New York: W. W. Norton, 2011.
Archer, David. The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009.
Biello, David. The Unnatural World: The Race to Remake Civilization in Earth’s Newest Age. New York: Scribner, 2016.
Crate, Susan A., and Mark Nuttall, eds. Anthropology and Climate Change: From Actions to Transformations. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2016.
Davis, Heather, and Etienne Turpin, eds. Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments, and Epistemologies. London: Open Humanities Press, 2015.
Davis, Wade. The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World. Toronto: House of Anansi, 2009.
Del Tredici, Peter. Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast: A Field Guide. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010.
Dunaway, Finis. Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Ellis, Richard. The Empty Ocean: Plundering the World’s Marine Life. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2003.
Epstein, Paul R., and Dan Ferber. Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do about It. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.
Flannery, Tim. Atmosphere of Hope: The Search for Solutions to the Climate Crisis. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2015.
Gore, Al. An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do about It. Emmaus, PA: Rodale, 2006.
Grinspoon, David Harry. Earth in Human Hands: The Rise of Terra Sapiens and Hope for Our Planet. New York: Grand Central, 2016.
Hamilton, Clive. Earthmasters: The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013.
Hamilton, Clive, Christophe Bonneuil, and François Gemenne, eds. The Anthropocene and the Global Crisis: Rethinking Modernity in a New Epoch. London: Routledge, 2015.
Harvey, David C., and Jim Perry, eds. The Future of Heritage as Climates Change: Loss, Adaptation, and Creativity. New York: Routledge, 2015.
Hulme, Mike. Can Science Fix Climate Change? Cambridge: Polity, 2014.
Jacobson, Mark Z. Air Pollution and Global Warming: History, Science, and Solutions. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Jamieson, Dale. Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle against Climate Change Failed—and What It Means for Our Future. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Kolbert, Elizabeth. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. New York: Henry Holt, 2014.
Krupnik, Igor, and Dyanna Jolly, eds. The Earth Is Faster Now: Indigenous Observations of Arctic Environmental Change. 2nd ed. Fairbanks, AK: Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, 2010.
Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac. New York: Oxford University Press, 1949.
Levy, Barry S., and Jonathan A. Patz, eds. Climate Change and Public Health. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Mangelsen, Thomas D. Polar Dance: Born of the North Wind. Omaha: Images of Nature, 1997.
Marris, Emma. Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World. New York: Bloomsbury, 2011.
Marsh, Joanna. Alexis Rockman: A Fable for Tomorrow. London: D. Giles, 2010.
Martinez-Alier, Joan. The Environmentalism of the Poor: A Study of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2002.
Maslin, Mark. Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
McNeill, J. R. Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000.
McNeill, J. R., and Peter Engelke. The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014.
Milbourne, Karen E. Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa. New York: Monacelli, 2014.
Minteer, Ben A., and Stephen J. Pyne, eds. After Preservation: Saving American Nature in the Age of Humans. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Möllers, Nina, Christian Schwägerl, and Helmuth Trischler, eds. Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands. Munich: Deutsches Museum, 2015.
Nakashima, Douglas, et al. Weathering Uncertainty: Traditional Knowledge for Climate Change Assessment and Adaptation. Paris: UNESCO, 2012.
Nixon, Rob. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011.
Nordhaus, William. The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013.
Potts, Richard, and Christopher Sloan. What Does It Mean to Be Human? Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2010.
Purdy, Jedediah. After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015.
Pyne, Stephen J. Between Two Fires: A Fire History of Contemporary America. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2015.
＿＿＿. Fire: Nature and Culture. London: Reaktion Books, 2012.
Roberts, Callum. The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea. New York: Viking, 2012.
Sachs, Jeffrey D. The Age of Sustainable Development. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015.
Schmidt, Gavin, and Joshua Wolfe. Climate Change: Picturing the Science. New York: W. W. Norton, 2009.
Scott, Andrew C., et al. Fire on Earth: An Introduction. Chichester, UK: John Wiley and Sons, 2014.
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Stager, Curt. Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2011.
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United Nations Environment Programme. Measuring Progress: Environmental Goals and Gaps. Nairobi: United Nations Environment Programme, 2012.
Vince, Gaia. Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2014.
Wagner, Gernot, and Martin L. Weitzman. Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015.
White, Gregory. Climate Change and Migration: Security and Borders in a Warming World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Wildcat, Daniel R. Red Alert! Saving the Planet with Indigenous Kn
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Williams, Mark, Jan Zalasiewicz, Alan Haywood, and Mike Ellis, eds. “The Anthropocene: A New Epoch of Geological Time?” Special issue, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 369, no. 1938 (March 2011).
Wilson, Edward O. Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life. New York: W. W. Norton, 2016.
CONTRIBUTORS
Richard B. Alley is Evan Pugh University Professor of Geosciences and an associate of the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at the Pennsylvania State University. He has ranged from Antarctica to Greenland to learn the history of Earth’s climate and whether the great ice sheets will melt rapidly, raising sea levels. With more than 290 scientific publications, he has received numerous awards and recognitions, including election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society. He hosted the PBS miniseries Earth: The Operators’ Manual.
Subhankar Banerjee is the Lannan Chair of Land Arts of the American West and a professor of art and ecology in the University of New Mexico’s Department of Art and Art History. He is the author of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land and the editor of Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point. His photographs have been exhibited in more than fifty museum exhibitions around the world. He is the recipient of several honors, including a Cultural Freedom Award from the Lannan Foundation and a Greenleaf Artist Award from the United Nations Environment Programme.
Carter J. Brandon is the World Bank’s global lead economist for environment and natural resources. His primary interest is the linkages among the environment, welfare, and growth. During his twenty years at the World Bank, he has held positions in both headquarters (as the lead economist for Latin America and South Asia) and field offices (in Buenos Aires and Beijing). Prior to that, he ran the Development Economics Group, an economics consulting firm specializing in trade and sector policy analysis. He has a BA from Harvard University and an MSc from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Lonnie G. Bunch III is the founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture and was previously the president of the Chicago Historical Society and the associate director for curatorial affairs at the National Museum of American History. His publications include The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden, Call the Lost Dream Back: Essays on Race, Museums and History, and Memories of the Enslaved: Voices from the Slave Narratives.
Paula Caballero is the global director of the World Resources Institute’s Climate Program. She has a long history in the field of development, including service as the senior director of the World Bank Group’s Environment and Natural Resources Global Practice and as the director for Economic, Social and Environmental Affairs in Colombia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She is widely recognized as the lead proponent of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, for which she was awarded a Zayed International Prize in 2014.
Kelly Chance is a senior physicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the principal investigator for the NASA/Smithsonian Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) satellite instrument that is currently being built to measure North American air pollution hourly from geostationary orbit. He has been measuring Earth’s atmosphere from balloons, aircraft, the ground, and especially satellites since receiving his PhD from Harvard in 1977. His measurements include the physics and chemistry of the stratospheric ozone layer, climate-altering greenhouse gases, and atmospheric pollution.
Robin L. Chazdon is a professor emerita of ecology at the University of Connecticut. Her long-term collaborative research focuses on successional pathways, vegetation dynamics, and functional ecology of trees in tropical forests. She is currently the executive director of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation and the director of the People and Reforestation in the Tropics Research Coordination Network. She works as a consultant on global and regional restoration initiatives and is the author of more than 140 peer-reviewed scientific articles and the coeditor of two books. Her book Second Growth: The Promise of Tropical Forest Regeneration in an Age of Deforestation was published in 2014.
Lindsay L. Clarkson is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Chevy Chase, Maryland. A graduate of Harvard University and Duke University Medical School, she is a training and supervising analyst at the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis and a member of the Center for Advanced Psychoanalytic Studies in Princeton, New Jersey. Her primary interests lie in contemporary Kleinian theory and technique and in developing a psychoanalytic understanding of human relationship to the natural world and the nonhuman environment.
G. Wayne Clough served as the tenth president of the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1994 to 2008 and as the twelfth secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 2008 to 2014. He earned his BS and MS degrees from Georgia Tech and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and has received honorary doctorates from twelve universities. Clough is active as a lecturer and a thought leader on engineering and climate change. He resides in his native state of Georgia, where he teaches part-time at Georgia Tech, with a focus on leadership, and continues his work to improve higher education access for underresourced students.
Wade Davis is a professor of anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. Between 1999 and 2013, he served as an explorer-in-residence at the National Geographic Society. The author of twenty books, including One River, The Wayfinders, and Into the Silence, he holds degrees in anthropology and biology and a PhD in ethnobotany, all from Harvard University. His many film credits include Light at the Edge of the World, an eight-hour documentary series written and produced for the NGS. Davis, who was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 2016, is the recipient of eleven honorary degrees.
Peter Del Tredici recently retired from the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, where he published on the ecology and horticulture of a wide array of trees and shrubs over the course of his thirty-five-year career. He is currently a visiting lecturer in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he teaches courses on urban ecology and climate change. In 2013, the Royal Horticultural Society of England awarded him the Veitch Memorial Gold Medal, “in recognition of services given in the advancement of the science and practice of horticulture.”
J. Emmett Duffy is the director of the Smithsonian’s Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network and coordinates the MarineGEO program, a global partnership seeking to understand how and why coastal sea life is changing and how that affects the resilience of marine ecosystems. He is a marine biologist who studies sea grass and coral reef ecosystems worldwide and is active in scientific networks and syntheses linking biodiversity to ecosystem and human well-being. He came to the Smithsonian in 2013 after nineteen years at the College of William and Mary’s Virginia Institute of Marine Science.
Finis Dunaway is a professor of history at Trent University in Canada. He is the author of Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform and Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images, which received the John G. Cawelti Award from the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, the History Division Book Award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, and the Robert K. Martin Book Prize from the Canadian Association for American Studies. He is currently researching the history of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a remote area in northeastern Alaska that has become one of the most contested landscapes in modern North America.
John Grabowska’s natural history films about the American wilderness have won awards at festivals around the world and are broadcast nationally as prime-time specials on PBS. He has lectured on natural history filmmaking at the Smithsonian Institution and the National Geographic Society, led environmental media workshops in Argentina and Panama, and cofounded the American Conservation Film Festival.
Naoko Ishii has served as the CEO and chair of the Global Environment Facility since August 2012. Prior to that, she was Japan’s deputy vice minister of finance, responsible for the country’s international financial and development policies and its global policies on the environment, including climate change and biodiversity. At the World Bank from 2006 to 2010, she was the country director for Sri Lanka and the Maldives. She has published several books, one of which was awarded the Suntory Prize and one the Okita Memorial Prize for International Development Research. She holds a BA and a PhD from the University of Tokyo.
Luc Jacquet’s first feature film, March of the Penguins, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2006. In 2010, he founded the nonprofit association Wild-Touch, which aims to support and increase wildlife conservation by arousing emotions through powerful images. In 2014, he directed Ice and the Sky, a documentary about the glaciologist Claude Lorius, who contributed to revealing the impact of human activity on climate. In 2017, the director is releasing The Emperor, a sequel to his first movie, filmed on his recent “Antarctica!” Wild-Touch expedition. Jacquet and Wild-Touch are also working on “The Flow of Life,” an artistic and educational project about biodiversity, which will explore different ecosystems and explain how all living beings on our planet are interconnected.
Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer at the New Yorker. “The Climate of Man,” her three-part series on global warming, won the American Association for the Advancement of Science Journalism Award, the National Academies Communication Award, and the National Magazine Award for Public Interest. She is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a Heinz Award, and a National Magazine Award for Reviews and Criticism. Her books include The Prophet of Love: And Other Tales of Power and Deceit, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change, and The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, the winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
W. John Kress is a distinguished scientist and curator of botany at the National Museum of Natural History. He formerly served as the interim undersecretary for science and the Grand Challenges Consortia’s director of science at the Smithsonian. He received a BA from Harvard University and a PhD from Duke University. His books include Plant Conservation: A Natural History Approach, The Weeping Goldsmith, The Art of Plant Evolution, and The Ornaments of Life. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an adjunct professor of biology at George Mason University in Virginia.
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