Anthropocene
Freedom in the Anthropocene
Submitted by Dan Thompson on Mon, 06/04/2012 - 4:04pm
Author:
John Fullerton Much needs to change in the Anthropocene, including our willingness to have constraints placed on our precious right to individual freedom. This is particularly challenging for Americans whose country was founded on an Enlightenment-inspired understanding of freedom, uninformed by the advances of modern science that have taken place in the past century.
"Welcome to the Anthropocene"
"The Economist" ran this cover story last week. It’s the most important news item in 10,000 years.
Of course it’s not really “news.” In 2000, atmospheric chemists Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer first suggested the term, meaning “the recent age of man,” the geological period in which humans change the way the planet works in geochemical terms. Stunning.
The Anthropocene brings to a close the 10,000 year Holocene epoch, a climatically stable, yet relatively brief period at the end of the 65 million year Cenozoic Era. This is a significant milestone in the 4 billion year history of planet earth.
"Welcome to the Anthropocene"
Submitted by John Fullerton on Mon, 06/06/2011 - 10:28am
Author:
John Fullerton "The Economist" ran this cover story last week. It’s the most important news item in 10,000 years.
Of course it’s not really “news.” In 2000, atmospheric chemists Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer first suggested the term, meaning “the recent age of man,” the geological period in which humans change the way the planet works in geochemical terms. Stunning.
The Anthropocene brings to a close the 10,000 year Holocene epoch, a climatically stable, yet relatively brief period at the end of the 65 million year Cenozoic Era. This is a significant milestone in the 4 billion year history of planet earth.
