The Eocene epoch lasted between 55.8 to 33.9 million years ago. This period starts with the hottest period of the Cenozoic era, about five million years. The Global warming happening then was due to a high release of methane from theoceanfloor. Polar regionsalso allowed the growth of trees a...
comparable to the Jazz Age or the Dirty Thirties. They are declaring that the present is as different from the Holocene as the Holocene was from the Pleistocene before it. By labelling our time the Anthropocene — from the Greekanthropos, meaning human being...
Animals are disappearing at hundreds of times the normal rate, primarily because of shrinking habitats. Their biggest threat: humans.
The industrial revolution brought epidemics of disease and illness never seen before. And we will only survive the anthropocene if we reconsider our individual health as it relates to the collective, and the planet. Daunting as that may be, it’s still p
Hominins first appear by around 6 million years ago, inthe Miocene epoch, which ended about 5.3 million years ago. Our evolutionary path takes us through the Pliocene, the Pleistocene, and finally into the Holocene, starting about 12,000 years ago. The Anthropocene would follow the Holocene. ...
in all others the risky policy was applied. A random decision making agent within a random tipping element will most likely end up with a policy that is neither optimal, neither sustainable nor safe, followed by the parameter sweet spot regime where the policy is simultaneously optimal, sustainab...
“This is the story of how one species changed a planet,” says the narrator at the opening of “Welcome to the Anthropocene,” a short 3-min video that was played at the opening of the United Nations’ 2012 Rio+20 Summit (Gaffney & Pharand-Deschenes, 2012). Inviting spectators to ack...
Over the past few decades, the term“Anthropocene” has climbed out of academic discourse and into the popular imagination— a name given to the geologic era we live in now, and a way to signal that it is a new era, defined on the wall chart of deep history by human intervention. One...
By Sunday, the notion of preparing for a discussion was causing me a kind of dread, in part owing to my dread-inclined nature, in part to the reading list: everything from “Art for the Anthropocene Era,” inArt in Americalast winter, to “Agency at the Time of the Anthropocene,” ...