Embracing the Anthropocene

Award-winning environmental writer Gaia Vince talks about the human impact on the planet — and what we must do to ensure our survival as a species.

Here’s an unusually sunny and optimistic view of the Anthropocene – the era of the Human Being, or however you wish to define it – a kind of “we’ll make it on through” approach. Gaia Vince is a writer who is now traveling round the world, looking at how the Anthropocene is developing… I’m not sure I can be as cheerful about it.

via A New Hope: Gaia Vince on Human Resilience and Our Fragile Planet — Discover