Anthropocene Antarctica by Elizabeth Leane, Jeffrey McGee - 9781032089157

Anthropocene AntarcticaPerspectives from the Humanities, Law and Social Sciences\nAuthor(s): Elizabeth Leane, Jeffrey McGee\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032089157, 978-1032089157\nSynopsis\nAnthropocene Antarctica offers new ways of thinking about the Continent for Science and Peace in a time of planetary environmental change. In the Anthropocene, Antarctica has become central to the Earths future. Ice cores taken from its interior reveal the deep environmental history of the planet and warming ocean currents are ominously destabilising the glaciers around its edges, presaging sea-level rise in decades and centuries to come. At the same time, proliferating research stations and tourist numbers challenge stereotypes of the continent as the last wilderness. The Anthropocene brings Antarctica nearer in thought, entangled with our everyday actions. If the Anthropocene signals the end of the idea of Nature as sep.