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Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime by Bruno Latour

ribra's review against another edition

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challenging informative inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

4.0

britbucklee's review against another edition

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3.0

Strong talking points but as a read it's an aggressively self-indulgent overcomplicating of quite simple and palatable themes.

jimvdmeulen's review against another edition

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dark hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

ethandickler's review against another edition

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Where can I buy some of Bruno’s family’s wine?

mcld's review against another edition

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reflective

3.0

jdubonnet's review against another edition

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4.0

Obscure language.

baetsie's review against another edition

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4.0

'We are at last clearly in a situation of war, but it is a phony war, at once declared and latent. Some people see it everywhere; others ignore it entirely.
Dramatizing somewhat extravagantly, let us call it a conflict between modern humans who believe they are alone in the Holocene, in flight toward the Global or in exodus toward the Local, and the terrestrials who know they are in the Anthropocene and who seek to cohabit with other terrestrials under the authority of a power that as yet lacks any political institution.

And that war, at once civic and moral, divides each of us from within.'

lottie1803's review against another edition

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challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.75

larasbraga's review against another edition

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3.0

I will admit it is a very important book that opens up the door to talk about the environment as it’s own political actor and talks about climate refugees

I don’t understand why he spent so much time talking about Earth minus and plus and drawing all the graphs — none of it made any sense, it was incredibly hard to follow

he had really good concepts such as the ones mentioned above that he could’ve explored way more instead of yapping away. there was no need for this to be this long, confusing and honestly inaccessible for majority of the population which is extreme weird for a book that wants to change the way everyone refers to the environment and Earth

cimoore1999's review against another edition

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challenging informative medium-paced

3.25