What constitutes the Anthropocene era, where human activity has significant and irreversible effects on the planet? ‘The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization’ (Verso, 2024), is a new book by award-winning London-born Algerian philosopher and Brown University professor Mohamed Amer Meziane, which tells readers how we got here.

I interviewed Mohamed for Monocle Radio. Listen below!

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