For more than a decade, earth system scientists have espoused the idea of a new geological age, the Anthropocene, as a means of understand the system environmental changes to our planet in recent decades. Bram Büscher, professor of sociology, Wageningen University, and author of Transforming the Frontier: Peace Parks and the Politics of Neoliberal Conservation in Southern Africa. Confronting and thinking the Capitalocene we must. In a time when there is generally no time or space to think (meaning: to go beyond the thoughtlessness that is the hallmark of business as usual ) we need a book like this more than ever. We live in the age of capital, the Capitalocene, the contributors argue, and the urgent, frightening and hopeful consequences of this reality check become apparent in chapters that forces the reader to think.
Richard Walker, professor emeritus of geography, University of California, Berkeley, and author of The Capitalist Imperative, The New Social Economy, The Conquest of Bread, and The Country in the City This volume puts the inadequate term Anthropocene in its place and suggests a much more appropriate alternative. In short, the enemy to be met is not us, dear Pogo, but capitalism, whose unrelenting exploitation of (wo)man and nature is driving us all to the end(s) of the earth. A good place to begin is this book, whose remarkable authors bring together history and theory, politics and ecology, economy and culture, to force a deep look at the origins of global transformation.
We had best start thinking in revolutionary terms about the forces turning the world upside down if we are to put brakes on the madness. 2 A revolutionary new phase of earth history, the Anthropocene, has been unleashed by human action, and the prospects for this blue sphere and the mass of humanity are not good.
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