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We Now Live in the Unnatural World

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Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2016

⏱️ 3 minutes

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David Biello's new book is The Unnatural World: The Race to Remake Civilization in Earth’s Newest Age.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.5

This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science.

0:36.9

I'm Steve Merski. Got a minute?

0:39.2

The Unnatural World is the title of a new book by former Scientific American Environment

0:45.0

editor David Beello, the subtitle, The Race to Remake Civilization in Earth's Newest Age.

0:52.4

And that age has been dubbed the Anthropocene,

0:55.1

in which humanity, Anthro, has become,

0:58.0

as the book puts it, a world-changing force of nature.

1:01.8

Bielo talked about the unnatural world recently

1:04.1

at the Book Court bookstore in Brooklyn.

1:06.6

He was asked who he met in his research,

1:08.8

who stood out as someone trying to take steps to address the issues of this age.

1:13.4

His name is Fon Chong Wei, and he is an environmental bureaucrat in a small coastal town in China.

1:21.1

And he has been tasked by his provincial government and his local government with trying to turn a city carbon neutral. So this

1:29.8

means that they would emit no more CO2 than they also kind of took in and destroyed, which is a

1:36.3

beautiful sounding circular economy kind of concept. Turns out to be incredibly difficult in practice

1:43.0

as Fawn is finding out. And, you know, that

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