The Anthropocene Epoch has been proposed as a name for the current phase of Earth history. Used in this sense it is a geological term. Taking the Anthropocene seriously as a geological concept offers theContinue reading
2.2 Does the Anthropocene warrant recognition in The Geological Time Scale?
Humans, society, institutions, and technology arise from, and are components of, the Earth. In principle, therefore, they lie within the scope of geology, the scientific study of the Earth. Of course this doesn’t mean thatContinue reading
2.1 What is the Anthropocene?
This question has more than one answer. There are multiple interpretations of what “Anthropocene” means, a complication to which I will return in subsequent posts. Here I focus on the use of “Anthropocene” as aContinue reading
1.0 The Set Up
I want to share some efforts of mine over the past few years to develop a framework for thinking about the status and future prospects of humans in the Anthropocene Epoch—the proposed new unit ofContinue reading