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https://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/press/press-releases/2015/june/extreme-makeover-mankind2019s-unprecedented-transformation-of-earthPosted by ap507 at Jun 29, 2015 11:30 AM
[font size=4]University of Leicester researchers suggest a turning point for the planet and its resources[/font]
[font size=3]Issued by University of Leicester Press Office on 29 June 2015
Images of the growing global technosphere and Professors Mark Williams and Jan Zalasiewicz available at: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ojdocgdy0pk4qld/AACEbF6Nbe_hDgL6lmM1tTXva?dl=0
- Human impact on Earth produces a unique kind of biosphere
- Changes to life may be the greatest for the past half billion years
- Earth may be entering a new kind of planetary state
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daleanime
(17,796 posts)and bookmarked.
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)But the general population weren't smart enough to see limits.
I've always said that living in a modern society should require modern education. I mean actually knowing what the shit is that you use. Otherwise it's there's no feedback mechanism. And that's what we see, even today, with what should be glaringly obvious to all but the sleeping. Hell, even the sleeping get it when the trash truck comes at 5am.
So now we get to experience life lie amoebas in a petri dish- a slow decline as we try to regroup and invent new ways to inflate again. I don't see that happening to the same extent as we've done, since the resources just won't be there in the same amount and orientation.
But I'm just between sets of planks, and am just spouting thoughts on the INTERNET. (Not in my mom's basement)
OKIsItJustMe
(19,938 posts)"These changes are advancing so rapidly, that the concept that we are living in a new geological period of time, the Anthropocene Epoch proposed by the Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen - is now in wide currency, with new and distinctive rock strata being formed that will persist far into the future.
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