Human Flourishing and History: A Religious Imaginary for the Anthropocene.
The Anthropocene denotes the impact of human activity on Earth systems, resulting in mass extinctions of plant and animal species, pollution of oceans, lakes and rivers, and altering of the atmosphere. The Anthropocene signifies the mass control of nature by humans, the erasure of boundaries between...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Philosophy of History Vol. 14; no. 3; pp. 382 - 419 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2020
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