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Coming Of Age At The End Of Nature: A Generation Faces Living On A Changed Planet, Amy K. Coplen Oct 2016

Coming Of Age At The End Of Nature: A Generation Faces Living On A Changed Planet, Amy K. Coplen

Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Publications and Presentations

This chapter appears in "Coming of Age at the End of Nature: A Generation Faces Living on a Changed Planet," published by Trinity University Press.

Coming of Age at the End of Nature explores a new kind of environmental writing. This powerful anthology gathers the passionate voices of young writers who have grown up in an environmentally damaged and compromised world. Each contributor has come of age since Bill McKibben foretold the doom of humanity’s ancient relationship with a pristine earth in his prescient 1988 warning of climate change, The End of Nature.

What happens to individuals and societies …