[roccman]

Tomdispatch


$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '.') . . the current ruthless competition between energy and food markets, amplified by international speculation in commodities and agricultural land, is only a modest portent of the chaos that could soon grow exponentially from the convergence of resource depletion, intractable inequality, and climate change. The real danger is that human solidarity itself, like a West Antarctic ice shelf, will suddenly fracture and shatter into a thousand shards.

[Heineken]

This idea has been around for some time now. It smacks of hubris.

It will be a very brief era. A vanishingly thin stratum in the rock record.

[coyote]

I was thinking something similar, Heineken. On the one hand, it's frightening that we're having such a profound impact on the state of the world that the evidence of it might actually be visible in the geologic record. But on the other hand, how long can our impact continue? We are colossal now, but not for much longer. In the end, it will have been only a few thousand years.

[Heineken]

Yes. We are so full of ourselves, but we're just a flash in the pan. And within that flash are many tiny sparks known as individual human lives. Pfft and you're gone.

[copious.abundance]

The Anthopocene will be immediately followed by the Robotocene. Or maybe they'll call it the Cyberocene.

[Heineken]

The Anthropocene will be followed by a new flowering of life on the planet and a small human population living more as it did hundreds or thousands of years ago. That assumes no major nuclear conflagration, which I regard as a very likely final act.

[vision-master]

Man has greatly increased his knowledge as of late. This is a sign for the ending of the fourth world cycle. The thrid world cycle ended with the great flood. The fourth wheel of time and space will come to a STOP soon! What will take place? No ones knows. I speculate the sprits of the underworld will emerge before of the fifth world cycle begins and all hell will break loose. THE PURIFICATION.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')hat assumes no major nuclear conflagration, which I regard as a very likely final act.

[Troyboy1208]

Vision-Master = Golem

[Jenab6]

As the Anthropocene ends, genocide will become popular (at least on the winning sides) in regions where races are mixed. All the conditioned distaste for it will become unraveled, and competitive interracial evolutionary struggles will once again mark the hominid family. More races might become extinct, just as Neanderthal once did. And the descendants of the victorious races will praise their valiant ancestors for their combat worthiness.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Troyboy1208', 'V')ision-Master = Golem

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jenab6', 'A')s the Anthropocene ends, genocide will become popular (at least on the winning sides) in regions where races are mixed. All the conditioned distaste for it will become unraveled, and competitive interracial evolutionary struggles will once again mark the hominid family. More races might become extinct, just as Neanderthal once did. And the descendants of the victorious races will praise their valiant ancestors for their combat worthiness.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '
')In the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, toward the end of the He who saw the deep version by Sin-liqe-unninni, there are references to the great flood (above tablet).

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '
')In the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, toward the end of the He who saw the deep version by Sin-liqe-unninni, there are references to the great flood (above tablet).

[Dezakin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', 'T')his idea has been around for some time now. It smacks of hubris.

It will be a very brief era. A vanishingly thin stratum in the rock record.

[roccman]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dezakin', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', 'T')his idea has been around for some time now. It smacks of hubris.

It will be a very brief era. A vanishingly thin stratum in the rock record.

[darwinsdog]

As a student, the idea that the "Holocene" or "Recent" should be considered a distinct epoch of the Cenozoic era, smacked of anthropocentric hubris to me. Clearly, thot I, the so-called "Holocene" is just the latest interfluvial period of the ongoing Pleistocene. As time went by I changed my thinking. As modern humans surged up out of Africa & populated the planet, a great anthropogenic mass extinction event was initiated that truly justifies epoch level denomination. With technological implementation humans have accelerated this mass extinction surge as well as having become a potent engine of climate change & erosion. Whether we call this human impacted epoch the "Holocene" or "Anthropocene" doesn't matter. What matters is that the human impacted epoch will continue long after human extinction ensues. It won't end until biodiversity recovers & excess oxidized carbon has been resequestered as buried biomass. The human impacted epoch - whatever one cares to call it - may well last 10 mys.

[Heineken]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('roccman', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dezakin', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', 'T')his idea has been around for some time now. It smacks of hubris.

It will be a very brief era. A vanishingly thin stratum in the rock record.

[roccman]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', '
')
The atmosphere is not a geologic feature of the Earth, as far as I know.

[AgentR]

I think there are two views of what "anthropocene" actually means being discussed here.

One view is that anthropocene refers to visible, enduring edifices of human creation, buildings, dams, etc. I do not think this is what the proposers mean by the term.

The other view is that anthropocene refers to a state of the geology and climate that has been dramatically, and permanently altered by the combined action of humans. Those changes will endure, even if we simply cease to exist tomorrow, and it is those changes that are significant in naming a new time period.

So there is nothing particularly "arrogant" about confirming such a designation; it is simple acknowledgement of the havoc we have bestowed upon our little home.

[SoylentGreen]

the world order knows the future and has tried to make genocide more difficult with mass immigration of races from all parts of the world into the western world.