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Afterword

from Part Three - Future Habitations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2022

By
Jürgen Renn  and
Christoph Rosol
Edited by
Julia Adeney Thomas
Julia Adeney Thomas
Affiliation:
University of Notre Dame, Indiana
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Summary

Possibly the most important element in creating the Anthropocene is the evolution of knowledge, since it was knowledge that provided humanity with the tools to change the Earth System. As we have come to know more and more, we have gained powers that we are only now beginning to understand. As this book shows, many kinds of knowledge are also essential to understanding and confronting the Anthropocene, and this brief afterword takes up this central theme.

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Altered Earth
Getting the Anthropocene Right
 , pp. 259 - 262
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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