On experimentation

Title: On experimentation
Creator: Cameron, Jenny
Relation: Manifesto for Living in the Anthropocene p. 99-101
Publisher: Punctum Books
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2015
Description: In 1957, the American scientists Roger Revelle and Hans Suess wrote that, “human beings are now carrying out a large-scale geophysical experiment of a kind that could not have happened in the past nor be reproduced in the future” (quoted in Hulme and Mahony 2010, 706). They were of course talking about our experiment with global industrial development and the release of millions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. As we now know, it is an experiment that is starting to produce disastrous consequences on a global scale. We have truly been playing with fire and it is increasingly evident that we are being burned. As a result many of us are going to have to make major shifts in how we live our lives or, sooner or later, those shifts will be forced on us as the world changes and adapts around us. The future is scarily unknown.
Subject: global industrial development; greenhouse gases; experimentation
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1324758
Identifier: uon:25116
Identifier: ISBN:9780988234062
Language: eng

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