Latest Climate Change Data and Denials
This week saw two important notes in climate news and events. First, an AP Wire story on new climate data revealing an alarming but unsurprising trend–more CO2 in the atmosphere. The amount of...
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by chriscrews · Published 03/09/2013
This week saw two important notes in climate news and events. First, an AP Wire story on new climate data revealing an alarming but unsurprising trend–more CO2 in the atmosphere. The amount of...
Anthropocene / environmental politics / news / political analysis / political ecology
by chriscrews · Published 12/09/2012
“The danger signs are all around.” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon While we really don’t need UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to tell us how f’d the planet and all of us are, it’s somewhat...
Anthropocene / civilization / political analysis / political ecology / science / technology
by chriscrews · Published 10/05/2012
Ok, but as some have asked, what do the ideas of environmental risk or the Anthropocene have to do with zombies or monsters and popular culture? Here I will concede the links appear...
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by chriscrews · Published 10/05/2012
The following thoughts are part of a longer response I have been writing in response to comments on my PhD dissertation proposal on the Anthropocene, Monsters in the Greenhouse, which you can find...
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by chriscrews · Published 06/10/2012
Back in 2007 the Carnegie Council held a symposium on environmental security, in which a number of academics working or thinking about this question had submitted related papers, with the featured piece...
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by chriscrews · Published 04/14/2012 · Last modified 10/08/2012
As I’ve discussed in an earlier post, the Anthropocene is a concept coined a little over a decade ago by scientists to describe the massive scale of changes happening to the Earth’s biosphere...
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