Description: The pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust the planet into a new age--the Anthropocene. Humans have altered the planet's biogeochemical systems without consciously managing them. The Great Acceleration explains the causes, consequences, and uncertainties of this massive uncontrolled experiment.
Brief description: J. R. McNeill is University Professor in the Department of History and School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Review Quotes: Among the first scholarly works to make explicit use of the geological framework of the Anthropocene for the purpose of rethinking the grand narratives of global economic change.
-- Fredrik Albritton Jonsson Public Books