[Rockhounds] The Anthropocene Is a Joke

[Kay Davis]

Yes that is YOUR political argument, do please take it off list

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From: Rockhounds [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at rockhounds.drizzle.com] On
Behalf Of Dora Smith
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2019 6:10 PM
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Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] The Anthropocene Is a Joke

This is a political argument and not appropriate here.

The notion of the anthropocene rests on the notion that humans have had 
an entirely destructive impact on our planet.???? If not, then the term 
has no meaning.???? Humans have been intelligent enough to have any impact 
on their environment for only a half a million years!?? The term 
certainly has no geological meaning!

Dora


On 8/14/19 2:50 PM, Kreigh Tomaszewski wrote:
> Humans are now living in a new geological epoch of our own making: the
> Anthropocene. Or so we???re told. Whereas some epochs in Earth history
> stretch more than 40 million years, this new chapter started maybe 400
> years ago, when carbon dioxide dipped by a few parts per million in the
> atmosphere. Or perhaps, as a panel of scientists voted earlier this year
>
<https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01641-5?utm_source=Nature+Briefi
ng&utm_campaign=4037068ff3-briefing-dy-20190522>,
> the epoch started as recently as 75 years ago, when atomic weapons began
to
> dust the planet with an evanescence of strange radioisotopes.
>
> These are unusual claims about geology, a field that typically deals with
> mile-thick packages of rock stacked up over tens of millions of years,
> wherein entire mountain ranges are born and weather away to nothing within
> a single unit of time, in which extremely precise rock
dates???single-frame
> snapshots from deep time???can come with 50,000-year error bars, a span
> almost 10 times as long as all of recorded human history. If having an
> epoch shorter than an error bar seems strange, well, so is the
Anthropocene.
>
>
>
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/08/arrogance-anthropocene/5
95795/
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