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s the December UN
Climate Change Summit in Paris draws near, talk about saving our planet from a
lengthening list of woes is becoming increasingly shrill. And not without
reason: the size of humans' environmental footprint has grown slowly but surely
since the Industrial Revolution and much faster after World War II.
As Tim Flannery suggested in “The Weather Makers”, which was
translated into 23 languages, humans have become a global force to be reckoned
with. As ecological costs mount, the world is entering a new geological epoch,
the Anthropocene, so named because of the profound effects we have had on the
Earth's natural cycles of biology, chemistry and geology.
Read a review of “Atmosphere of Hope” by Peter Spinks in The Sydney Morning Herald - “Atmosphere of Hope review: Tim Flannery's plans for our climate's future”.
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