Part 13: Holocene and Anthropocene.
The Anthropocene Working Group.
The Anthropocene Epoch-that.
As with a coin, our modern Anthropocene condition flips Thoreau's declaration of interdependence.
The tree therefore gives us a potential marker for the start of the Anthropocene.
We live in an era- the Anthropocene- where humans
and societies are reshaping and changing ecosystems.
In the Anthropocene, it's time to stop thinking of people as separate
and distinct from“the environment.”.
This has led other scientists to suggest that the Anthropocene began many thousand years ago;
In March 2015, another paper suggested either 1610 or 1964 could be the beginning of Anthropocene.
This allowed humans to dominate the planet,
such that we have triggered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene.
To reflect their severity, the name Anthropocene, the human age, has been suggested for the current geological epoch.
Although the biologist Eugene Stoermer
is often credited with coining the term"Anthropocene", it was in informal use in the mid-1970s.
An early concept for the Anthropocene was the Noosphere by Vladimir Vernadsky,
in 1938 he wrote of“scientific thought as a geological force”.
Many are suggesting that humanity should mark this moment by declaring that the
planet has entered the new epoch of the Anthropocene.
The crisis of the Anthropocene, the importance of systems transformation,
and the need to take an integrated approach to evaluation-action are gripping messages.
On May 21, a 34-member panel of the Anthropocene Working Group(AWG)
voted 29-4 in favour of designating a new geological epoch- the Anthropocene.
The term“Anthropocene” refers to the geological epoch that began
when human activities first started to have a global impact on the Earth's ecology.
Together with other members of the Anthropocene Working Group we have just published
a study in Science that pulls much of the evidence together.
Over the last two years, researchers have analysed 100 of more than 500 such case
studies submitted to the newly established Good Anthropocene website.
In the end, the challenge of climate change,
indeed the broader challenge of living in the Anthropocene, requires a broad-scale shift in our culture.
They are recalcitrant repositories of artefacts and properties that testify
to the dominance of the human impact, and hence appear to be reliable markers for the Anthropocene.
Many scientists are now using the term and the Geological Society of Americaentitled its 2011 annual meeting:
Archeanto Anthropocene: The past is the key to the future.
The Anthropocene is a proposed epoch dating from the commencement
of significant human impact on Earth's geology and ecosystems, including, but not limited to, anthropogenic climate change.
Insisting that the real authors of the climate crisis comprise a tiny, all-male, all-white fraction of the planet's population,
Malm objects to calling this the Anthropocene epoch;
The Anthropocene is a proposed epoch dating from the commencement
of significant human impact on the Earth‘s geology and ecosystems, including, but not limited to, anthropogenic climate change.
Steps are being taken by independent working groups of
scientists from various geological societies to determine whether the Anthropocene will be formally accepted into the Geological Time Scale.
Hence, there is a solid basis for considering that the Anthropocene- especially if defined as beginning in the mid-20th century-
is real within the context of our planet's history.
However, construction of dams on many rivers around the world means the rates of
sediment deposition in any given place do not always appear to increase in the Anthropocene.
The game also takes place in what we understand is Victorian Britain, epitomising the industrial revolution and
the onset of the new geological era we now live in: the Anthropocene.
Some scientists suggest that we are in a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, in which human activity is transforming the earth
system in ways that may compromise human civilization as we know it.