As the Anthropocene advances, there are few parts of Earth that have not been impacted by human influence. Humans had a long-sustained interaction with grassy ecosystems, but they becoming severely direct and indirect impacts as advances. Grassy ecosystems easy to clear cultivate, poorly protected, defined due legacies colonial narratives can describe them deforested, wastelands, or derived. Cl...

Dipesh Chakrabarty's The Climate of History in a Planetary Age is, three respects, far more than synthesis over decade pioneering conceptual work aimed at making sense the Anthropocene/planetary predicament and its implications for historical understanding. First, book makes visible an intellectual trajectory which struggles with Anthropocene gradually move from centrality notion toward planet....