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TRANSNATIONAL LEGAL THEORY
2020, VOL. 11, NOS. 1-2, 1-15
https://doi.org/10.1080/20414005.2020.1778888
Routledge
Taylor & Francis Group
EDITORIAL
Transnational environmental law in the
Anthropocene
Emily Webster and Laura Mai ,
Senior Research Fellows, Transnational Law Institute and Members of the Climate Law &
Governance Centre, King's College London, London, UK
KEYWORDS Transnational environmental law; Anthropocene; transnational law; legal theory
[L]et us call it a conflict between modern humans who believe they are alone in
the Holocene, in flight towards the Global or in exodus towards the Local, and
the terrestrials who know they are in the Anthropocene and who seek to cohabit
with other terrestrials under the authority of a power that as yet lacks any
political institution.'
1. Towards a new planetary epoch: from Holocene to
Anthropocene?
Today, some twenty years after its pronouncement,2 for
some, the term 'Anthropocene' has not lost its profoundness and radical
CONTACT Emily Webster Emily.Webster@kcl.ac.uk
1 Bruno Latour, Down To Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime (Polity Press 2018).
2 Paul J Crutzen and Eugene F Stoermer,'The Anthropocene (2000) 41 IGBP Global Change Newsletter 17;
see also Paul J Crutzen, 'Geology of Mankind' (2002) 415 Nature 23.
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