Winner of Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2015
"This is an underreported area of science and a truly original story... [Vince] has captured the issue of the day in a way that is ultimately empowering without ever being complacent." —Ian Stewart, Chair of judges, Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2015
"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
We live in epoch-making times. The changes we humans have made in recent decades have altered our world beyond anything it has experienced in its 4.6 billion-year history. As a result, our planet is said to be crossing into the Anthropocene – the Age of Humans.
Gaia Vince decided to travel the world at the start of this new age to see what life is really like for the people on the frontline of the planet we’ve made. From artificial glaciers in the Himalayas to painted mountains in Peru, electrified reefs in the Maldives to garbage islands in the Caribbean, Gaia found people doing the most extraordinary things to solve the problems that we ourselves have created.
These stories show what the Anthropocene means for all of us – and they illuminate how we might engineer Earth for our future.
