Sunday, October 19, 2014

Anthropocene Is Obscene

Posted: 10/19/2014  Updated: 7/11/2015, 10/27/2014

Update As Of 7/11/2015


Basically, the author argues as long as humans are not capable of controlling any of the natural catastrophes or weather we should not be changing the name of the current geological era since it is also fairly young (we are only 12,000 years into Holocene).

Original

This fairly new term to name the current geological chronological epoch seems to gain momentum from what I am reading.

This term seems to be seriously flawed in many respects:
  1. One of the main promoters of this term, Paul J. Crutzen (Nobel laureate in chemistry), seems to have quite an ideologically biased view
  2. This term suggests humans are habitual environmental sinners like the Christian bible suggests we are all sinners and need salvation
  3. To use such a term is another sign of the pretense of knowledge displayed by so many scientists
  4. As long as humans are not controlling weather or earthquakes or volcanoes or are able to permanently eliminate mosquitoes it would be quite preposterous to suggest humans are ruling nature

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