Boggs’ focus on human niche construction and the Anthropocene places the spotlight on our actions and the values they reflect, as well as how we should deal with environmental problems.
Ziolkowski tackles the problem of defining the Anthropocene from a geologic perspective, and explores how the Earth will record evidence of our existence.
The focus on human-environment relations from the perspective of climate change alone is too narrow. Often, society experiences climate change through political and technical decisions, rather than as an environmental crisis.
Meyer explores the need for a comprehensive politics of climate change.
Corporate social and environmental responsibility could help drive the cultural shift needed to tackle climate change issues.
In this essay, Watt recounts discussions with her students regarding lifestyle patterns; she shows how it will be necessary to change such patterns if we are to take climate change seriously from an economic and policy perspective, and to tackle it realistically.
Weik von Mossner looks at how we currently tell stories about global environmental change and human agency in the Anthropocene, the limitations of such narratives, and how consumers of these narratives are affected by them.
Sideris addresses the challenge of achieving interdisciplinary dialogue to tackle the notion of humans as a geophysical force.
DeB. Richter addresses the problem with declensionist narratives of the environment, proposing the Georgic narrative as a valuable alternative.
Chakrabarty responds to the contributors of this volume by addressing five issues he considers fundamental to discussions on climate change.
