[Rockhounds] The Anthropocene Is a Joke

[Dora Smith]

YOU'RE who is having a political argument, and if I hear ANY more I'll 
complain to the list HOST about abuse.?? In fact, I'm just about provoked 
enough to do it!

Yours,

Dora Smith

On 8/15/19 7:04 AM, Kay Davis wrote:
> Yes that is YOUR political argument, do please take it off list
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rockhounds [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at rockhounds.drizzle.com] On
> Behalf Of Dora Smith
> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2019 6:10 PM
> To: rockhounds at rockhounds.drizzle.com
> 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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