Towards Rethinking Politics, Policy and Polity in the Anthropocene
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Towards Rethinking Politics, Policy and Polity in the Anthropocene

Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Herausgegeben: Brauch, Hans Günter
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Humankind faces two anthropogenic threats to its survival that are closely linked. The first is the end of the Holocene and the start of the Anthropocene, which was marked by the test of a nuclear bomb on 16 July 1945. In the prevailing peace and security narrative, nuclear weapons and the 'other' (country, bloc or alliance) pose a perceived threat to humankind's survival. In the Anthropocene narrative, 'we are the threat' through our way of life and the burning of fossil fuels. The start of the Anthropocene coincides with a change in the international order with the setting up of the UN and t...