Pyrocene

Name: Pyrocene
Brand: University of California Press
SKU: 9780520391635
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How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next

Szerző: Stephen J. Pyne

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: University of California Press

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A provocative rethinking of how humans and fire have evolved together over time—and our responsibili...

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Szerző

Stephen J. Pyne

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2022

oldal

192

EAN

9780520391635

ISBN

0520391632

Enbook ID

38827240

Kiadó

University of California Press

Súly

278

Méretek

211 x 139 x 14

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A provocative rethinking of how humans and fire have evolved together over time—and our responsibility to reorient this relationship before it's too late.?The Pyrocene tells the story of what happened when a fire-wielding species, humanity, met an especially fire-receptive time in Earth's history. Since terrestrial life first appeared, flames have flourished. Over the past two million years, however, one genus gained the ability to manipulate fire, swiftly remaking both itself and eventually the world. We developed small guts and big heads by cooking food; we climbed the food chain by cooking landscapes; and now we have become a geologic force by cooking the planet. Some fire uses have been direct: fire applied to convert living landscapes into hunting grounds, forage fields, farms, and pastures. Others have been indirect, through pyrotechnologies that expanded humanity's reach beyond flame's grasp. Still, preindustrial and Indigenous societies largely operated within broad ecological constraints that determined how, and when, living landscapes could be burned. These ancient relationships between humans and fire broke down when people began to burn fossil biomass—lithic landscapes—and humanity's firepower became unbounded. Fire-catalyzed climate change globalized the impacts into a new geologic epoch. The Pleistocene yielded to the Pyrocene. Around fires, across millennia, we have told stories that explained the world and negotiated our place within it. The Pyrocene continues that tradition, describing how we have remade the Earth and how we might recover our responsibilities as keepers of the planetary flame.

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