Book contents
- The Anthropocene Crisis
- The Anthropocene Crisis
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part IIntroduction
- 1Introducing the Project and the Framework
- 2The Global Tipping Points Report 2023
- Part IIPast and Future as Methodological Approaches
- Part IIIWorld System Studies for the Anthropocene
- Part IVConclusions
- References
- Index
2 - The Global Tipping Points Report 2023
A Response from World System Science
from Part I - Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2026
Book contents
- The Anthropocene Crisis
- The Anthropocene Crisis
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part IIntroduction
- 1Introducing the Project and the Framework
- 2The Global Tipping Points Report 2023
- Part IIPast and Future as Methodological Approaches
- Part IIIWorld System Studies for the Anthropocene
- Part IVConclusions
- References
- Index
Summary
The chapter provides a critical reading of the Global Tipping Points Report 2023 (GTPR23). GTPR23 is taken as a comprehensive document that represents much of the state of the art of contemporary ESS, particularly also including how it sees the social sciences in relation to it. The chapter shows how ESS fails to understand the anthroposphere in the depth needed to pursue its aims. It unfolds what WSS might offer in terms of a more open methodological approach, a deeper understanding of the drivers of the anthroposphere, and a more realistic sense of the political conditions under which humankind will have to confront the Anthropocene crisis.
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- The Anthropocene CrisisA World System Science Approach, pp. 32 - 58Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2026
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