Add to ORKGIncludes bibliographical references.Carolyn Merchant is celebrated for her insights into how the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment featured the control of nature, bringing "the death of nature." A once nurturing mother Earth, became inert and mechanical, manipulated by industry and agriculture. Strident recent environmentalists have been celebrating our entering the Anthropocene Epoch, boldly embracing perpetual enlargement of the bounds of the human empire. We are urged to become planetary managers, geo-engineers, rebuilding the Earth better to serve human needs. Is this a return to the death of nature? This analysis revisits Carolyn Merchant in the prospect of an Anthropocene Epoch.For a related media presentation go to https://...
Here we stand, each one of us one primate among billions in a species that has overrun and ruined it...
Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henceforth, the world we will inhabit is the one we hav...
Though many scientists and scholars of the environmental humanities are referring to the current geo...
Videotaped at UC Berkeley, May 3 2018; produced at Colorado State University.Presentation given at t...
[Extract] Every now and then a concept comes along that shifts fundamentally, and in an enduring way...
Publishing in Ambio and elsewhere, geoscientists distributed across several disciplines have both cr...
The Anthropocene has emerged as the dominant conceptualization of the current geological epoch and, ...
The global environmental outlook is increasingly bleak and the human condition does not fare better....
Earth scientists have declared that we are living in “the Anthropocene,” but radical critics object ...
Re-imagining Anthropocene: towards a post-anthropocentric planetary literature Scientific and cu...
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The Anthropocene is a geologi...
This paper examines the recent proposal to christen our geological epoch “the Anthropocene.” The rea...
Metaphors are inevitable core elements of the conceptual schemes that shape our thinking and behavio...
In the first years of the 21st century Earth was being influenced by forces greater than our own an...
Although this paper focuses largely on the Anthropocene, it is not about the local or global dange...
Here we stand, each one of us one primate among billions in a species that has overrun and ruined it...
Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henceforth, the world we will inhabit is the one we hav...
Though many scientists and scholars of the environmental humanities are referring to the current geo...
Videotaped at UC Berkeley, May 3 2018; produced at Colorado State University.Presentation given at t...
[Extract] Every now and then a concept comes along that shifts fundamentally, and in an enduring way...
Publishing in Ambio and elsewhere, geoscientists distributed across several disciplines have both cr...
The Anthropocene has emerged as the dominant conceptualization of the current geological epoch and, ...
The global environmental outlook is increasingly bleak and the human condition does not fare better....
Earth scientists have declared that we are living in “the Anthropocene,” but radical critics object ...
Re-imagining Anthropocene: towards a post-anthropocentric planetary literature Scientific and cu...
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The Anthropocene is a geologi...
This paper examines the recent proposal to christen our geological epoch “the Anthropocene.” The rea...
Metaphors are inevitable core elements of the conceptual schemes that shape our thinking and behavio...
In the first years of the 21st century Earth was being influenced by forces greater than our own an...
Although this paper focuses largely on the Anthropocene, it is not about the local or global dange...
Here we stand, each one of us one primate among billions in a species that has overrun and ruined it...
Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henceforth, the world we will inhabit is the one we hav...
Though many scientists and scholars of the environmental humanities are referring to the current geo...