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The Great Mindshift Maja G. All the what, whys and whos.. Geo-morphology: What is it?. Geo . is the Earth.. Morph. is the change of something.. -Ology . is the study of something.. So,. Geomorphology. . is the study of the change of the Earth.. the ‘Human Condition’ in the Anthropocene. The ‘Silence of the Limbs’ in Western Political Theory . Lack of analysis to vulnerability within western political theory, especially liberalism and orthodox economic thinking (exception, green and feminist thinking, Alastair MacIntyre). Trends . Within. . the. . Holocene. John Birks, Vivian Felde, and Alistair Seddon. University. . of. Bergen. ‘. Anthropocene. ’ has suddenly become a buzzword in ecology and biogeography in the last few years, despite no clear definition for its lower boundary. Earth. Marina Fischer-Kowalski. Fridolin Krausmann, Irene Pallua. Institute . of. . Social. Ecology, Vienna. Alpen Adria University. Presentation. at . the. . symposium. . on “The . Fate.  of . Authors: Anne F. Van Loon et al (Nature, Feb 2016). Kimberly Duong. March 1, . 2016. Background. This paper describes:. human influences on drought. potential feedbacks between drought and society. Land use changes by humans alter hydrologic processes (evapotranspiration, infiltration, surface runoff, . 11,700 years to present. Holocene. From the end of the last ice age to the present.. Europe 20,000 years ago. All of northern Europe under mountains of ice. This locked much of the ocean’s water into ice and exposed large portions of the continental shelves. How are human bodies affected by and responding to the Anthropocene context? . What are the consequences for health and wellbeing of ongoing environmental degradation, loss of biodiversity and climate change?. A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from #1 internationally bestselling author John GreenThe Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his ground-breaking, critically acclaimed podcast, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet - from the QWERTY keyboard and Halley\'s Comet to Penguins of Madagascar - on a five-star scale.Complex and rich with detail, the Anthropocene\'s reviews have been praised as \'observations that double as exercises in memoiristic empathy\', with over 10 million lifetime downloads. John Green\'s gift for storytelling shines throughout this artfully curated collection about the shared human experience it includes beloved essays along with six all-new pieces exclusive to the book. Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize curiosity, observation, and transdisciplinary conversation about life on earth.As human-induced environmental change threatens multispecies livability, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet puts forward a bold proposal: entangled histories, situated narratives, and thick descriptions offer urgent “arts of living.” Included are essays by scholars in anthropology, ecology, science studies, art, literature, and bioinformatics who posit critical and creative tools for collaborative survival in a more-than-human Anthropocene. The essays are organized around two key figures that also serve as the publication’s two openings: Ghosts, or landscapes haunted by the violences of modernity and Monsters, or interspecies and intraspecies sociality. Ghosts and Monsters are tentacular, windy, and arboreal arts that invite readers to encounter ants, lichen, rocks, electrons, flying foxes, salmon, chestnut trees, mud volcanoes, border zones, graves, radioactive waste—in short, the wonders and terrors of an unintended epoch.Contributors: Karen Barad, U of California, Santa Cruz Kate Brown, U of Maryland, Baltimore Carla Freccero, U of California, Santa Cruz Peter Funch, Aarhus U Scott F. Gilbert, Swarthmore College Deborah M. Gordon, Stanford U Donna J. Haraway, U of California, Santa Cruz Andreas Hejnol, U of Bergen, Norway Ursula K. Le Guin Marianne Elisabeth Lien, U of Oslo Andrew Mathews, U of California, Santa Cruz Margaret McFall-Ngai, U of Hawaii, Manoa Ingrid M. Parker, U of California, Santa Cruz Mary Louise Pratt, NYU Anne Pringle, U of Wisconsin, Madison Deborah Bird Rose, U of New South Wales, Sydney Dorion Sagan Lesley Stern, U of California, San Diego Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus U. Equally inspired by medieval bestiaries and observations of our damaged planet, A Bestiary of the Anthropocene is a compilation of hybrid creatures of our time. Designed as a field handbook, it aims at helping us observe, navigate, and orientate into the increasingly artificial fabric of the world.Plastiglomerates, surveillance robot dogs, fordite, artificial grass, antenna trees, Sars-Covid-2, decapitated mountains, drone-fighting eagles, standardised bananas… each of these specimens are symptomatic of the rapidly transforming “post-natural” era we live in. Often without us even noticing them, these creatures exponentially spread and co-exist with us.A Bestiary of the Anthropocene seeks to capture this precise moment when the biosphere and technosphere merge and mesh into one new hybrid body. What happens when technologies and their unintended consequences become so ubiquitous that it is difficult to define what is “natural” or not? What does it mean to live in a hybrid environment made of organic and synthetic matter? What new specimens are currently populating our planet at the beginning of the 21st century? Source: . Andrzej Krauze. 2. Inquiry Question. When did the Anthropocene begin?. Anthropocene.... a human-dominated geological epoch.. Popularized by the Dutch atmospheric chemist Paul . Crutzen. in 2000. why does it matter?. Contents. Slides 3, 4 & 5: . Introduction to the Anthropocene . Slide 6:. . People and the planet: Wildlife Photographer of the Year video. Slide 7:. . Plants Under Pressure video.