Socioeconomic and Cultural Rights and the Anthropocene

James R. May

doi:10.1017/9781009039642.006

5 - Socioeconomic and Cultural Rights and the Anthropocene

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 March 2023

James R. May

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Walter F. Baber and

James R. May

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Walter F. Baber: Affiliation:
California State University, Long Beach
James R. May: Affiliation:
Widener University, Delaware Law School

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The Anthropocene won’t be ignored but doesn’t care if it is. Headlines tumble out one after another, revealing disaster in every part of our environment: one day we learn that eight million tons of plastic are put into the world’s oceans every year, and as we try to comprehend the magnitude of that, we hear about the seemingly intractable air pollution in the world’s largest cities (UN, 2020, 2021). And then there’s climate change, which is raising global temperatures, warming and acidifying oceans, melting glaciers and ice caps, and wreaking havoc on weather patterns. June 2021 was the hottest month in recorded history. The Anthropocene is here and it is us, human rights be damned.

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Information: Environmental Human Rights in the Anthropocene
Concepts, Contexts, and Challenges
, pp. 92 - 114

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