Living with the Anthropocene
Love, Loss and Hope in the Face of Environmental Crisis
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2020
Summary
Australia - and the world - is changing. On the Great Barrier Reef corals bleach white, across the inland farmers struggle with declining rainfall, birds and insects disappear from our gardens and plastic waste chokes our shores. The 2019-20 summer saw bushfires ravage the country like never before and young and old alike are rightly anxious. Human activity is transforming the places we live in and love.
In this extraordinarily powerful and moving book, some of Australia’s best-known …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781742236889 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 174223688X |
| Author: | Kirsten Wehner, Jenny Newell, Cameron Muir |
| Publisher: | NewSouth Publishing |
| Imprint: | NewSouth Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2020 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 233mm x 155mm x 21mm |
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‘Living with the Anthropocene is an illuminating deep-dive in this ‘storm of our own making.’ With such a diverse and expansive collection of voices, what makes this book stand out is its unity. Thinking about climate change can be lonely and devastating but here you can be assured of being held, not only in thrall, but in great company.’ –Anna Krien
About The Author
Kirsten Wehner
Cameron Muir’s features and essays have appeared in the Griffith Review, The Guardian, Inside Story, Overland, Australian Book Review and The Canberra Times. His book, The Broken Promise of Agricultural Progress (Routledge 2014) was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s History Awards and he helped complete and edit Tony McMichael’s posthumous book Climate Change and the Health of Nations (OUP 2017).
Jenny Newell is manager of Pacific and International Collections at the Australian Museum, Sydney and she has previously held curatorial roles at the Museum of Natural History, New York and the British Museum, London.
Kirsten Wehner is a curator and writer who is currently director of PhotoAccess: Centre for Contemporary Photography in Canberra and is a former curator at the National Museum of Australia.
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