Les différents rapport de chute de #neige, le #froid qui m'as mordu les mains ce matin me rapelle les #hivers de mon enfance, enneigés. Cette année l'hiver à l'air d'être en retard, au moins j'ai vu quelques #flocons ce midi. J'espere que mes #enfants, leurs enfants etc auront aussi cette chance avant l'#anthropocène .
Ouvrir une nouvelle époque géologique, c’est laisser des traces visibles dans les sols pour des millions d’années. Mais, tout comme l’histoire humaine, celle de la Terre ne s’enregistre pas n’importe où. Plongée avec la géologue Francine McCarthy dans la mémoire géologique et politique du lac Crawford, dans l'Ontario. 🕳️
Prof. Udo Di Fabio (Uni Bonn),
Prof. Ulrich Schurr (IBG-2, FZ Jülich),
Prof. Sandra Venghaus (IEK, FZ Jülich) and
Prof. Maximilian Weigend (BIOB-I, Uni Bonn)
"Yet, as Ellis demonstrates, portraying the Anthropocene as an environmental crisis ignores its most important message. When people work together, they can indeed change the world for the better."
I'm reading a book called Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet and just got to an essay about how the boundaries between organisms, and between an organism and its environment, are never clearly drawn.
One of the examples is Mixotricha paradoxa. Under standard magnification it looks like a normal single-celled ciliate. But it's actually 5 different organisms: a containing cell, internal bacteria, and 3 different types of surface bacteria that provide locomotion.
"Bovenbouw Architectuur and ono architectuur designed a communication center for the storage of low and medium-level radioactive waste in Dessel, Belgium. To remain relevant throughout the 300-year process required to decrease the radioactivity, the building must be able to adapt to unforeseeable changes over the centuries."
Just like in Finland across the Baltic, Sweden determines that the very best place in the nation to put a deep geological storage site for spent nuclear fuel coincidentally happens to be an existing nuclear reactor site. How lucky can you get!
More proof that our DGR siting choices reflect the politics and economics of current governments rather than long-term safety.
Gothic Warnings: Jekyll and Hyde, Dorian Gray, Dracula, & the Anthropocene
29 Nov, University of Aberdeen, & online. Free
Dr Emily Alder reconsiders these famous #Gothic works in light of the #Anthropocene, a concept used to describe the impact of human activities on Earth systems & in which the #Victorian period is deeply implicated
In Harvesting the Biosphere, Vaclav Smil offers an interdisciplinary and quantitative account of human claims on the biosphere's stores of living matter, from prehistory to the present day. Smil examines all harvests—from prehistoric man's hunting of megafauna to modern crop production—and all uses of harvested biomass, including energy, food, and raw materials.