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Introduction: Interrogating the Anthropocene

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Interrogating the Anthropocene

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One hopes that this is another ‘untimely’ book that adds to the many voices of artists, poets, academics, politicians, and leaders around the world who have embraced the necessity of addressing the precarity of the Earth and the crisis of our species in what it has been arguably termed the Anthropocene ; its euphemism, ‘climate change ’ is certainly the more common term, but no better understood.

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