Nature in Crisis: ‘The Burning Earth’ by Sunil Amrith
The ‘great acceleration’ is a term used to describe the dramatic surge in the 1950s of both human and earth systems indicators that marked a shift from a relatively stable planetary state to one that's characterised by increasing environmental instability. Alongside measures of carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane levels, this shift can be tracked in numerous other areas of human activity, such as GDP, financialisation, foreign direct investment and the spread of telecommunications.
In ‘The Burning Earth’ (2024), Sunil Amrith uses history as a way of understanding why we got to this…
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