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Who absorbs the cost?A "clean" city ships its waste elsewhere. A "free" service is paid for in attention and electricity. A "balanced" budget shifts its burden onto other years. Climate, technology, debt, inequality: the order we enjoy here is paid for elsewhere — by other places, other people, other generations.We do not create order. We displace disorder. This recurring structure, hidden beneath crises we treat as unrelated, is what this book names: anthropy.ANTHROPY goes back to the source: 3.3 million years of human organization, from the taming of fire to artificial intelligence, showing how each age displaced its costs — and onto whom.You stay in control of the reading. Seven ages, 168 self-contained milestones: follow the whole crossing from end to end, or enter through any crisis, any era, any everyday object. Each milestone stands on its own.A reading grid rather than one more warning — one you will soon find yourself applying to the morning news, and to your own field.A big-history essay at the crossroads of political economy, ecology, and the philosophy of power. Extended by seven open-access research papers. Read more
