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Living with the Anthropocene: Love, Loss and Hope in the Face of Environmental Crisis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

edited by Cameron Muir, Kirsten Wehner, Jenny Newell<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paperback | Oct 2020 | NewSouth<\/a> | 9781742236889 | 304pp | 234x153mm | GEN | AUD$34.99, NZD$39.99<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With essays by Tony Birch, James Bradley, Jo Chandler, Sophie Cunningham, Delia Falconer, Jane Rawson, David Ritter, Ellen van Neerven,<\/strong> and many more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Australia \u2014 and the world \u2014 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\u201320 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this extraordinarily powerful and moving book, some of Australia\u2019s best-known writers and thinkers \u2014 as well as ecologists, walkers, farmers, historians, ornithologists, artists and community activists \u2014 come together to reflect on what it is like to be alive during an ecological crisis. They build a picture of a collective endeavour towards a culture of care, respect, and attention as the physical world changes around us. How do we hold onto hope?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Personal and urgent, this is a literary anthology for our age, the age of humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Living with the Anthropocene<\/em> is an illuminating deep-dive in this \u2018storm of our own making\u2019. 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.’ \u2014 <\/strong>Anna Krien<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘An important book that speaks to our time.’ \u2014 <\/strong>Tim Flannery<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘With this marvellous book the term Anthropocene loses its academic tinge to become a pervasive and pressing reality. A pantheon of Australia\u2019s finest environmental writers reveals the haunting personal costs of living in a world that humans have already turned upside down.’ \u2014 <\/strong>Iain McCalman<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Scientists originated the term and concept of the Anthropocene. But this work takes a much deeper dive into what the Anthropocene really means for us humans now and into the future, and \u2013 importantly \u2013 what the Anthropocene means for the rest of life with which we share this planet.’ \u2014 <\/strong>Will Steffen<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Broken Promise of Agricultural Progress: An Environmental History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Routledge, 2014
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Shortlisted in the 2015 New South Wales Premier’s History Awards<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Cameron Muir has produced a brilliant, far-reaching book that combines environmental and agricultural approaches to urgent questions about food politics and land management. This is a terrific work of historically textured, geographically immersed story-telling that also has a strong conceptual payoff in debunking resilient myths about what it would take to feed the world. Muir’s conclusions will reverberate across disciplines and national borders.’\u2013Rob Nixon, Princeton University, USA<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘In his gripping account of the failures of European agriculture on the western plains of New South Wales, Cameron Muir challenges our assumptions about the social and environmental outcomes of agricultural progress. How can global food security be maintained, given that modern farming technologies can \u2018break\u2019 places? Muir\u2019s perceptive and fresh analysis alerts us to why the lessons of the past are so crucial for the future management of our environments.’ \u2013Kate Darian-Smith, University of Melbourne, Australia<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘This book is remarkable in the way it builds \u2013 from an incredibly wide range of sources \u2013 an ecological history of what the unbridled quest for agricultural rewards may do to poorly understood lands, especially drylands. In all, this is an enthralling and very important book that deserves to be read by a wide audience of agriculturalists, sociologists, farmers, conservationists and ecologists among others.’ \u2013P.S. Lake, Monash University, Australia<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Climate Change and the Health of Nations: Famines, Fevers, and the Fate of Populations <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Tony McMichael with Alistair Woodward and Cameron Muir<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oxford University Press, 2017
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Maclean’s Magazine Top Ten Books of 2017. Featured in New Yorker, Nature, National Geographic, New Scientist, Mashable<\/em> and many more
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“He deftly traces the great environmental “undercurrents that shaped the fates of civilisations, their cultures, ideologies, and power structures”. He calls for an extraordinary civilisational response. McMichael is optimistic about the world’s “mega-problem”. He tells the story for the first time of “the historical interplay between climate change, human health, disease, and survival”. It is a magnificent treatise. It demands our attention. And action.” – Richard Horton, The Lancet<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“[Climate Change and the Health of Nations] lucidly, and at times lyrically, chronicles 200,000 years of human history through a climate lens.” – Nature<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The book’s goal is not to make predictions but to motivate change, which McMichael does by bringing into focus humanity’s sensitivity to fluctuations in the natural climate system throughout history.” – Science Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The writing is clear, unadorned, and engaging. The scholarly reach is breathtaking \u2026 This splendid book is a call to action \u2026 And if we are successful, as we must be, Tony McMichael’s contributions will live on as a vital part of that legacy.” – Howard Frumkin, EcoHealth<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Urgent in tone .. Offering hindsight as well as foresight, McMichael makes a strong argument for sustainability.” – Publishers Weekly<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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