Anthropocene
Your latest find is more of an invention: the new geological age of the “Anthropocene”.
This happened at a meeting three years ago. Someone said something about the Holocene, the geological era covering the period since the end of the last ice age. I suddenly thought this was wrong. In the past 200 years, humans have become a major geological force on the planet. So I said, no, we are not in the Holocene any more: we are in the Anthropocene. I just made up the word on the spur of the moment. But it seems to have stuck.
Dutch Nobel-laureate Paul Crutzen interviewed in the New Scientist.
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2 kommentaren
eamelje.net op 10 juli 2003 @ 21:46:38
Dit is ingenieurs-tinken tsjinoer wittenskiplike wiisheid. In ingenieur wit dat er in soad net wit, en besykt problemen te foarkommen troch hieltiid grutte feilichheden yn te bouen. Wêr as guon wittenskippers net boue mar ferkleare wolle. En dat wurket psygoloagysk sjoen krekt wat oars.
lieuwe op 6 juli 2003 @ 11:21:24
"I didn’t just observe things, I made them. …you have to work with intuition. And I have learnt to question everything. Whenever a sientific paper says, "it is well known that", I know there is probably some good research that needs doing to check that."
– Byt er himsels hjir net yn de sturt? –