We are entering a new geological epoch -- the Anthropocene, or Age of Man. Gaia Vince travelled the world to understand what this new age will mean for us, and future generations
We are entering a new geological epoch -- the Anthropocene, or Age of Man. Gaia Vince travelled the world to understand what this new age will mean for us, and future generations
Gaia Vince is a journalist and broadcaster specialising in science and the environment. She has been the front editor of the journal Nature Climate Change, the news editor of Nature and online editor of New Scientist. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, The Times, Science, Scientific American, Australian Geographic and the Australian. She has a regular column, Smart Planet, on BBC Online, and devises and presents programmes about the Anthropocene for BBC radio. She blogs at WanderingGaia.com and tweets at @WanderingGaia.
A heroic and important work
*Sunday Times*
An excellent book... Vince writes with great freshness and vigour,
and her stories are hard to stop reading
*Daily Telegraph*
It holds a mirror up to humanity and says: look what you have done
to the world, the only world you will ever have... in every sense a
good book, as well as a compelling read
*Guardian*
A masterpiece... a wondrous, remarkable, but heart-rending
story
*Ecologist*
A masterpiece... a wondrous, remarkable, but heart-rending
story
*Ecologist*
A story of optimism about how 10 billion people can in future live
together and prosper... Fresh and unencumbered, Vince glides from
ecology to economics, politics to philosophy, seeing it all through
the people she meets
*New Scientist*
Ambitious and provocative... brilliant
*Literary Review*
Vince's broader discussions of the biological and Earth science are
as cogent as her close reportage
*Nature*
A beautifully human and optimistic book filled with stories of
ordinary people who simply refuse to give up
*BBC Focus*
A beautifully written book that raises the most profound question
of our time: "How should we live?" In the past, this has been
primarily a personal question. But, as Gaia Vince amply
demonstrates, what was once a personal question has become the
central question for us as a species -- and the fate of nearly
every species on our planet (including our own) rests on our
answer.
*Ken Caldeira, Professor of Environmental Earth Systems Sciences,
Stanford University*
A richly textured account of the post-wilderness years (and this
year's winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science
Books)
*Literary Review*
A richly textured account of the post-wilderness years (and this
year's winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science
Books)
*Literary Review*
Ms Vince's focus on individuals and places helps ground the science
in reality... [her] case studies are fascinating
*The Economist*
I love this book. Gaia Vince effortlessly weaves individual stories
into an epic, global narrative, to present us with a positive
vision of a humane, brave new world
*Alice Roberts*
A fine and timely book. Gaia Vince shows us how to stay steady and
cheerful despite the ever intensifying drama of the
Anthropocene
*James Lovelock*
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