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Climate change, Gaia and the Anthropocene

In: Handbook on the Geographies of Globalization

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  • Simon Dalby

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Climate change is an increasingly urgent matter of global politics, a consequence of the huge success of the fossil-fueled global economy. The longstanding discussion of the Gaia hypothesis, James Lovelock’s ideas of earth as a self-regulating life system, and the dangers that rising greenhouse gas concentrations present to this system, foreshadow contemporary earth system science discussions. The formulation of earth as now in a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, has added forcefully to Lovelock’s contentions, and made it clear that globalization now needs to be understood as a driving force operating at such a scale that it is transforming the planet in ways that are very dangerous for the future of humanity. Current attempts to tackle climate change are only the beginning of what needs to be done to shape the Anthropocene in ways that will be benign to humanity’s future.

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  • Simon Dalby, 2018. "Climate change, Gaia and the Anthropocene," Chapters, in: Robert C. Kloosterman & Virginie Mamadouh & Pieter Terhorst (ed.), Handbook on the Geographies of Globalization, chapter 23, pages 307-317, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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