"Where the banks end, the land plateaus, rolling out under the sky with a cover of black spruce, their trunks narrow from the effort of growing in permafrost. The peak of Arctic summer in the north Yukon is just beginning to tilt toward autumn yellow and red." —Bathsheba Demuth for Emergence Magazine
A friend of mine wrote a wonderful text on "the significance of moss in our lives and the interconnection between humans and more-than-human entities". If you are into moss, you would definitely enjoy this essay.
Haben die Menschen mit ihrem Tun einen irreversiblen Effekt auf den Planeten (CO2, Plastik, Dünger...)? Und lässt sich das in geologischen Sedimenten zeigen?
Zweimal "ja".
Trotzdem hat die Komission dagegen gestimmt, deshalb das neue geologische Zeitalter "Anthropozän" auszurufen.
Ideologie statt wissenschaftliche Haltung sei der Grund gewesen, dass das Konzept - in der jüngsten Abstimmung - keine Mehrheit fand.
… while writing how whole-life models for salmon need to consider the survival of currently rare types, as salmon encounter climate chaos, I wrote
“our descent into the Anthropocene”
and bummed myself right out. :blobsad:
The Birth of the Anthropocene by Jeremy Davies, 2019
The Birth of the Anthropocene shows how this epochal transformation puts the deep history of the planet at the heart of contemporary environmental politics.
The Anthropocene: 101 Questions and Answers for Understanding the Human Impact on the Global Environment by Billie Lee Turner II, 2022
The Anthropocene is an authoritative reference work for students of geography, the environment and sustainability. Through a series of 101 interconnected questions and answers spanning ten thematic sections, the book provides a comprehensive survey of humankind's impact on the global environment.
My discipline, anthropology, is not seen as a “growth" discipline, and departments are being closed down. But the world needs Anthropology and Anthropologists now more than ever!
Here are my 8 reasons for this:
POSSIBILITIES
At a time of polycrisis, when the destructive fallouts of capitalist modernity are ever more apparent, anthropology highlights that there are myriad alternative ways of thinking and living; that there is so much to learn from other peoples in the world. 1/n
The rejection of a formally designated new geological epoch is not a close, it's a chance: to engage with the #Anthropocene as a event rather than an era, argue N. Boivin et al. in this @Nature Ecol Evol (2024) comment: