extract from a review on eflux: "Pettman and Thacker suggest that the eerie feeling of witnessing ecological collapse may signal that the earth was never simply a human possession, but rather a vast, indifferent realm in which our fate is revealed. [...] This eclectic approach highlights a striking paradox of our age: “Never before have we known so much about the planet; never before have we felt so estranged from that same planet—to say nothing of the wider cosmos.”"