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THIS BOOK IS A STRIKING MANIFESTATION of the power and potential in the idea of the Anthropocene. A skillful narrator with many years of journalistic experience, author Christian Schwägerl describes how a single species, our own, is irreversibly transforming the Earth’s biological, geological and chemical processes, and thus affecting our very existence. Two hundred years of industrialization bear testimony to humanity’s power of innovation and creativity but also prove our more perilous powers of degradation and destruction. For the first time in Earth’s history, its future is being determined by both the conscious and unconscious actions of Homo sapiens. Schwägerl’s book is a rallying cry for us to recognize our opportunity to build a long-lasting, viable, creative and freedom-loving human civilization. This book is like a navigation system for the new world of the Anthropocene that lies before us.

Paul J. Crutzen, PhD

Dr. Paul J. Crutzen, born 1933, is an atmospheric chemist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (with Mario J. Molina and Frank Sherwood) in 1995, for his pioneering research into ozone layer depletion caused by chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). From 1977 to 1980, Dr. Crutzen was the director of research at the National Center of Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado and from 1980 to 2000, director of Atmospheric Chemistry at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany. He has undertaken research at numerous other institutions, such as the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Crutzen is a longstanding member of various scientific academies, including the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.