Firepower: Geopolitical Cultures in the Anthropocene
Firepower: Geopolitical Cultures in the Anthropocene
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DOI：
10.1080/14650045.2017.1344835
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发表时间：
2018-01-01
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2.9
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Dalby, Simon
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作者：
Dalby, Simon
人类对火的控制是当代地球转型讨论中相对被忽视的一部分。从地缘政治的角度来思考这个问题，是一种将气候适应、物种灭绝和将传统的政治生态分析扩展到全球范围的可能性联系起来的方法。这种想法被明确拒绝作为特朗普政府外交政策行动的适当前提，这在传统的火力理解方面构成了美国的伟大。这种地缘政治文化的冲突现在是全球政治的关键，其中戏剧性的景观变化，相关的物种灭绝以及气候变化直接或间接地源于人类对燃烧的控制。火力是一项军事技术，也是以化石燃料燃烧的形式为全球经济提供燃料的基本能源。关注燃烧作为当代地缘政治中的一种关键地球物理力量，为人类世的讨论提供了有益的见解，特别是气候变化和生物多样性丧失这两个地球界限，这是当代全球环境治理努力的关键。
The human control of fire is a relatively neglected part of the discussion of the contemporary transformation of the planet. Thinking about it in terms of geopolitics is a way to link climate adaptation, extinction and the possibilities of extending traditional analyses of political ecology to the global scale. Such thinking is explicitly rejected as the appropriate premises for foreign policy action by the Trump administration which poses American greatness in terms of traditional understandings of firepower. This clash of geopolitical cultures is now key to global politics, where dramatic landscape transformation, related species extinctions as well as climate change results directly and indirectly from human control of combustion. Firepower is a matter of military technology as well as, in the form of fossil fuel combustion, the essential energy source that fuels the global economy. Focusing on combustion as a key geophysical force in contemporary geopolitics offers useful insights into the Anthropocene discussion and, in particular, the two planetary boundaries of climate change and biodiversity loss, which are key to contemporary efforts at global environmental governance.