anthropocene

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 * Anthropocene** = Geologic term that serves to mark the evidence and extent of human activities that have had a significant global impact on the Earth's ecosystems.

The term was coined by ecologist Eugene Stoermer but has been widely popularized by the Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen, who regards the influence of human behavior on the Earth's atmosphere in recent centuries as so significant as to constitute a new geological era for its lithosphere. - [|Wikipedia.org]

Headlines
[] http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html [] [|Atomic bombs and oil addiction herald Earth’s new epoch: The Anthropocene] - [|@voooos] [|Was 1950 the year human activity began to leave an indelible mark on the geology of Earth?] [|The_Anthropocene_in_the_Solar_System] - [|@drspacejunk] [|Who do we think we are?] [|A New Kind of Human Being]

Recommended Listening
[|Scientists say we have entered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene] - Some scientists argue that the world is entering a new geological age. They call it the Anthropocene, an age where the planet is shaped by people.

[|Adventures in the Anthropocene] - We are entering a new geological epoch - the Anthropocene.

[|Can humans survive the Anthropocene?] - Has the human imprint become so large that it rivals the great forces of nature?

[|Humans in the Anthropocene] - David Wood has been considering the impact of humans in the Anthropocene; some big philosophical questions open up — like agency, responsibility and action.

Quotes
Officially, this epoch does not exist. Yet. It may be added permanently to the geologic time scale in August 2012, at the [|34th congress] organized by the [|International Union of Geological Sciences], to be held in Brisbane, Australia. It is the International Commission on Stratigraphy that determines the denomination and the calibration of different divisions and subdivisions of geological time, which date back to the formation of the Earth, 4.6 billion years ago. Unofficially however, the term is used more frequently in the scientific literature and, more recently, in publications dedicated to the general public. - []

elsewhere
South Africa hosts the 35th ‘World Cup of Geosciences’ in 2016, the prestigious International Geological Congress (IGC), which is undoubtedly the most important activity of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS). The South African event will take place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre from 27 August to 4 September 2016. [|geology conference]

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[|Working Group on the Anthropocene (WGA)]

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