Friday, January 29, 2021

Royal Society of Chemistry: Marking the Anthropocene

Anthropocene is obscene! What human hubris on display, not much more!

Can humans stop or even accurately predict earthquakes, volcano eruptions, or other natural catastrophes? Can we change the daily weather? What about the almighty sun? And there are many more questions about humans and nature ...

"The idea for the Anthropocene came from a chemist – the Nobel prize-winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen, who sadly died on 28 January this year. In 2000 he suggested that we are now in a new geological epoch, marked by the activities of humans. ..."

Marking the Anthropocene | Feature | Chemistry World The idea that we’re in a human-influenced geological epoch is gaining traction, but how will future geologists measure it?

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