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Is the Anthropocene a Useful Way to Understand Conflict in the Middle East?

Published January 4th, 2021 - 11:38 GMT
AFP File Photo
AFP File Photo
Over the past two decades, a new word has entered universities, research labs, and think-tanks: Anthropocene. It aims to understand the upheaval of geological and climatic balances on the planet. Now it's being used to understand conflicts in the Middle East. In 2000, the Nobel Prize-winning chemist Paul Crutzen made an intervention at the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme in Mexico. The Earth, Crutzen argued, had entered a new age. Following from the Holocene, the Anthropocene is c

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