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')Read "The World Without Us," by Alan Weisman. When we're gone the unwinding will be surprisingly rapid, at least of the visible signs that we were here. Yes, there will be some buried junk that will last nearly forever. So what.
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Re: Welcome to the "Anthropocene" - and to its Cha
by Mesuge » Mon 30 Jun 2008, 06:32:05
Agreed, just look at the rapid pace of human made object destruction aka re-wilderment in various place around the globe. The best examples are various left-behind self-desintegrating industrial complexes, or the city of Pripjat (Chernobyl), which is now turned basically into an area of gorgeous wildlife refuge, and that's only two decades after the event.
The problem is that the extinction/reduction of the psycho-ape species from ~7-9bln. peak pop developing throughout this century will cause such a havoc in its last kick that many interesting creatures and ecosystem will vanish for good, which is a shame!
Hah, I hope that the ETs have recorded them at least on some sort of highres 3D video tape (narrated by David Attenborough) or stored as genetic samples ready to be replanted some day. I can picture the ETs elementary school lectures focused on the dangers of the psycho-ape from "Earth" causing ultimate havoc.
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Re: Welcome to the "Anthropocene" - and to its Cha
by Dreamtwister » Mon 30 Jun 2008, 12:33:38
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Mesuge', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', '
')Read "The World Without Us," by Alan Weisman. When we're gone the unwinding will be surprisingly rapid, at least of the visible signs that we were here. Yes, there will be some buried junk that will last nearly forever. So what.
')Read "The World Without Us," by Alan Weisman. When we're gone the unwinding will be surprisingly rapid, at least of the visible signs that we were here. Yes, there will be some buried junk that will last nearly forever. So what.
Agreed, just look at the rapid pace of human made object destruction aka re-wilderment in various place around the globe. The best examples are various left-behind self-desintegrating industrial complexes, or the city of Pripjat (Chernobyl), which is now turned basically into an area of gorgeous wildlife refuge, and that's only two decades after the event.
That's a good one, but I like Detroit better. If you can choke your way past the guy's racist rhetoric, he illustrates modern urban reclamation quite effectively.
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Re: Welcome to the "Anthropocene" - and to its Cha
by Heineken » Mon 30 Jun 2008, 14:37:51
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The atmosphere is not a geologic feature of the Earth, as far as I know.
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The atmosphere is not a geologic feature of the Earth, as far as I know.
Really ??
So Greenland's ice shelf slipping into the Atlantic because of AGW IS NOT geologic?
That's very interesting.
That's right, Roccman. The atmosphere is not part of the geosphere, although obviously there are important relationships between them. Geology is the study of the solid matter constituting the earth.
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