The Human Planet

The Human Planet traces humanity's environmental impacts through time, revealing a new view of human history and offering insights into the future of humanity in an unstable world.

Scientists Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin examine how human activity—from megafauna extinction during the hunter-gatherer period to agricultural development and the age of exploration—has fundamentally altered Earth's systems.

The book approaches the Anthropocene from an interdisciplinary perspective, connecting environmental destruction with social inequity, economic exploitation, and climate catastrophe, while arguing that the Anthropocene story is fundamentally one of domination and resistance to domination.