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Climate Change is the most important ethical problem humanity is facing right now. We are in the process of harming the Earth in ways that will diminish the quality of life for many future generations. Our old human-centrism, our national tribalism, and our short-term perspectives must give way to new ways of thinking that give moral standing to other animals, and that take global and long-term perspectives. In the year 3000, humankind will look back to the present century, which dramatically altered the planet's climate and ecosystems. Will they curse us as destroyers of the earthly paradise humankind enjoyed until now? To avoid this, we need to change our approach to ethics, economics, sustainability, politics, and law.Earthling: A New Ethics for the Anthropocene addresses sustainability, economics, politics, and law as important factors in climate ethics. It aims to both help with understanding these issues, and present potential solutions for the problem.

Intro -- Foreword -- Prologue -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1 Introduction: From Homo Prometheus to Terra Incognita -- 2 Greenhouse Gases and Mass Extinctions -- 2.1 The K-T Impact-Triggered Hyperthermal Event -- 2.2 The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) -- 2.3 Cenozoic Climates -- 3 Human Origins (Abbreviated from Groves 2016) -- 4 Fire and Human Intelligence -- 5 The Age of Consequences -- 5.1 The Anthropocoene Hyperthermal -- 5.2 Accelerated Melting of the Ice Sheets -- 5.3 Migration of Climate Zones -- 5.4 Climate Extremes -- 5.5 An Uncharted Climate Territory -- 6 Inferno -- 7 The Gathering Storm -- 8 The Critical Century -- 9 An Orwellian Climate as Rome Burns -- 10 Space Lunacy -- 11 Notes from a Catastrophe -- 12 A Eulogy -- References -- Index.

"Foreword" -- "Acknowledgment" -- "Contents" -- "About the Editors" -- "Part I: Introductory" -- "Chapter 1: Climate Change and Air Pollution: An Introduction" -- "References" -- "Chapter 2: Air Quality in Changing Climate: Implications for Health Impacts" -- "Air Quality, Exposure and Health Impacts" -- "Climate Change and Air Pollution" -- "From Pre-industrial Era to Present Day" -- "Future Projections" -- "Projected Exposure to Ground-Level Ozone and Ambient PM2.5" -- "Co-benefits of Reducing Air Pollutants" -- "Socio-economic Projection for Vulnerability Assessment" -- "Scenario Matrix Architecture: A Way Forward for Estimating Future Burden Due to Air Pollution" -- "Concluding Remarks" -- "References" -- "Chapter 3: International Conferences on Sustainable Development and Climate from Rio de Janeiro to Paris" -- "The Reality of Global Warming: Causes and Consequences" -- "The Need for Action at the Global Level" -- "Various Summits and the Measures to Be Taken for a Sustainable Solution to the Problem" -- "Effects and Repercussions on Health" -- "References" -- "Chapter 4: COP21 in Paris: Politics of Climate Change" -- "Introduction" -- "Paris Climate Agreement" -- "Politics of Climate Change" -- "Indian Context" -- "During US Election 2016" -- "Donald Trump: President of the USA" -- "Conclusion" -- "References" -- "Part II: Case Studies: Developed Countries/Regions" -- "Chapter 5: Climate Change Impacts on Air Pollution in Northern Europe" -- "Introduction: Health Effects and EU Air Pollution Levels in the 2000s" -- "Future IPCC Scenarios of Climate and Pollutant Precursor Emissions Change" -- "Climate Change Impacts on Air Pollution" -- "Climate Change Impacts on Air Pollution: IPCC Future Climate Scenarios" -- "Air Pollution Impacts from Combined Future IPCC Combined Climate and Emissions Scenarios

Der Mensch als Produkt der Natur ist zugleich ihr Kostgänger, Ausbeuter und Zerstörer. Seinen Platz in der Natur und Kultur - und damit seine Verantwortung - aus neuen Perspektiven wegweisend zu bestimmen, ist das Ziel dieses außerordentlichen Buches. Der Autor, Professort Hubert Markl, ist Präsident der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft

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Der Beitrag The effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on human well-being erschien zuerst auf Martin Schroeder.

Industrialization, and the natural world, to 1914 -- World War I : a turning point -- The interwar years : North American and global competition for resources -- World War II -- The post-war boom -- Tropical and sub-tropical of the post-colonial world -- The cold war : militarization and surrogate wars -- Toward sustainability?

The ends of work -- Exhaustion and endurance in sick landscapes : cheap tea and the work of monoculture in the Dooars, India / Sarah Besky -- The concentration of killing : soy, labor, and the long green revolution / Kregg Hetherington -- Making monotony : bedsores and other signs of an overworked hog / Alex Blanchette -- Labor struggles -- The job of finding food is a joke : orangutan rehabilitation, work, subsistence, and social relations / Juno Salazar Parreñas -- The heat of work : dissipation, solidarity, and kidney disease in Nicaragua / Alex Nading -- Metabolic relations : Korean red ginseng and the ecologies of modern life / Eleana Kim -- How guinea pigs work : figurations and gastro-politics in Peru / María Elena García -- Industrial materials : labor, landscapes, and the industrial honeybee / Jake Kosek -- Futures of work -- Cultural analysis of microbial worlds / John Hartigan -- Rhapsody in the forest : wild mushrooms and the multispecies multitude / Shiho Satsuka -- Kamadhenu's last stand : on animal refusal to work / Naisargi N. Dave.