Webbläsaren som du använder stöds inte av denna webbplats. Alla versioner av Internet Explorer stöds inte längre, av oss eller Microsoft (läs mer här: * https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/windows/end-of-ie-support).

Var god och använd en modern webbläsare för att ta del av denna webbplats, som t.ex. nyaste versioner av Edge, Chrome, Firefox eller Safari osv.

Alf Hornborg

Alf Hornborg

Professor emeritus

Alf Hornborg

The geology of mankind? A critique of the Anthropocene narrative

Författare

  • Andreas Malm
  • Alf Hornborg

Summary, in English

The Anthropocene narrative portrays humanity as a species ascending to power over the rest of the Earth System. In the crucial field of climate change, this entails the attribution of fossil fuel combustion to properties acquired during human evolution, notably the ability to manipulate fire. But the fossil economy was not created nor is it upheld by humankind in general. This intervention questions the use of the species category in the Anthropocene narrative and argues that it is analytically flawed, as well as inimical to action. Intra-species inequalities are part and parcel of the current ecological crisis and cannot be ignored in attempts to understand it.

Avdelning/ar

  • Humanekologi

Publiceringsår

2014

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

62-69

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

The Anthropocene Review

Volym

1

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

SAGE Publications

Ämne

  • Social and Economic Geography

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 2053-020X