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TY - JOUR
T1 - An Anthropocene Species of Trouble?
T2 - Negative Synergies between Earth System Change and Geological Destratification
AU - Clark, Nigel
AU - Rickards, Lauren
PY - 2022/12/31
Y1 - 2022/12/31
N2 - It is already well understood that unbinding materials and energy from their lithic reservoirs impacts upon Earth systems. But that is just the first stage of a cycle of ‘Anthropocene trouble’. This paper tracks the multiple ways in which subsequent Earth system change reacts back upon the social infrastructures of subsurface exploitation and the landscapes they produce. Shifting fire regimes, intensifying hydro- meteorological events and sea level rise impact upon the infrastructures of hydrocarbon extraction, hydroclimatic change impacts upon infrastructures and landscapes of mineral extraction, and both pyroclimatic and hydroclimatic change impact upon nuclear infrastructures and on landscapes already contaminated by radioactive materials. To make sense of these ‘negative synergies’ we draw upon social science diagnoses of late modern hazards as well Anthropocene science’s deepening collaboration between ‘hard rock’ geology and Earth system science.
AB - It is already well understood that unbinding materials and energy from their lithic reservoirs impacts upon Earth systems. But that is just the first stage of a cycle of ‘Anthropocene trouble’. This paper tracks the multiple ways in which subsequent Earth system change reacts back upon the social infrastructures of subsurface exploitation and the landscapes they produce. Shifting fire regimes, intensifying hydro- meteorological events and sea level rise impact upon the infrastructures of hydrocarbon extraction, hydroclimatic change impacts upon infrastructures and landscapes of mineral extraction, and both pyroclimatic and hydroclimatic change impact upon nuclear infrastructures and on landscapes already contaminated by radioactive materials. To make sense of these ‘negative synergies’ we draw upon social science diagnoses of late modern hazards as well Anthropocene science’s deepening collaboration between ‘hard rock’ geology and Earth system science.
KW - climate change
KW - energy
KW - extraction
KW - hazard
KW - infrastructure
KW - mining
KW - nuclear power
KW - subsurface
KW - waste
KW - wildfire
U2 - 10.1177/20530196221107397
DO - 10.1177/20530196221107397
M3 - Journal article
VL - 9
SP - 425
EP - 442
JO - The Anthropocene Review
JF - The Anthropocene Review
SN - 2053-0196
IS - 3
ER -