Speaker: Dr. Rosalind Warner Topic: Post Anthropocene. Time: Jul 6, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Covid-19 disrupted the world and people’s lives in previously unimaginable ways. It […]
The Anthropocene – Paul Crutzen 1933-2021
“Stop saying the Holocene! We’re not in the Holocene any more.” Hubbub; surprise: “So where are we then, Paul?”, his colleagues asked. “When are we?” He cast around, hesitated, then […]
Welcome to Terra Sapiens
Humans have been altering Earth for millennia, but only now are we wise to what we’re doing. How will we use that wisdom? As a planetary astrobiologist, I am focused […]
Anthropocene fever
Officially, for the past 11,700 years we have been living in the Holocene epoch. From the Greek for ‘totally new’, the Holocene is an eyeblink in geological time. In its […]