Screen LibraryThe Plutocene : Blueprints for a Post-Anthropocene Greenhouse Earth /
This book presents projections and blueprints of the future geologic period, climate and biosphere, based on our current understanding of the Earth s history and recent developments in the atmosphere-ocean-cryosphere system. By the second decade of the 21st century it has become clear that, rather t...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences,
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57237-6 |
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This book presents projections and blueprints of the future geologic period, climate and biosphere, based on our current understanding of the Earth s history and recent developments in the atmosphere-ocean-cryosphere system. By the second decade of the 21st century it has become clear that, rather than channel its efforts into protecting its planetary biosphere and living species, Homo sapiens continues to sink its remaining resources into weapons, including nuclear missiles thus increasing the risk of intentional or accidental spread of radioactive nuclides on land, oceans and atmosphere. W |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(XVI,154pages): illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9783319572376 |
| Index Number: | GB3 |
| CLC: | P5 |
| Contents: | Part I: The Demise of the Holocene Biosphere -- 1. Pandora s Box -- 2. The Lungs of the Earth -- 3. Paradise Lost -- Part II: The Breach in Earth s Radiation shield -- 4. Ionizing radiation and the biosphere -- 5. Late Anthropocene nuclear tests and wars -- 6. Late Anthropocene Radioactive Mausoleums -- Part III: The Event Horizon -- 7. Nuclear Winter -- 8. The Rising Oceans -- Part IV: A Republic of insects and grasses -- 9. Lessons from the Miocene and Pliocene -- 10. Ionizing radiation effects on plants and organisms -- 11. Arthropod civilizations -- Part V: Homo Prometheus -- Part VI. Da |