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  • Also in this time frame we have seen the birth of the "anthropocene" as the era in which humankind has significantly impacted the carrying capacity of the biosphere -- with notable episodes including the breakup of Arctic ice that is the planet's thermostat and weather initiator, an unprecedented loss of biodiversity, the steady erosion of arable land, and an ongoing depletion of freshwater supplies.

    Randall Amster: New Clear Energy Randall Amster 2010

  • Also in this time frame we have seen the birth of the "anthropocene" as the era in which humankind has significantly impacted the carrying capacity of the biosphere -- with notable episodes including the breakup of Arctic ice that is the planet's thermostat and weather initiator, an unprecedented loss of biodiversity, the steady erosion of arable land, and an ongoing depletion of freshwater supplies.

    Randall Amster: New Clear Energy Randall Amster 2010

  • Also in this time frame we have seen the birth of the "anthropocene" as the era in which humankind has significantly impacted the carrying capacity of the biosphere -- with notable episodes including the breakup of Arctic ice that is the planet's thermostat and weather initiator, an unprecedented loss of biodiversity, the steady erosion of arable land, and an ongoing depletion of freshwater supplies.

    Randall Amster: New Clear Energy Randall Amster 2010

  • Also in this time frame we have seen the birth of the "anthropocene" as the era in which humankind has significantly impacted the carrying capacity of the biosphere -- with notable episodes including the breakup of Arctic ice that is the planet's thermostat and weather initiator, an unprecedented loss of biodiversity, the steady erosion of arable land, and an ongoing depletion of freshwater supplies.

    Randall Amster: New Clear Energy Randall Amster 2010

  • Also in this time frame we have seen the birth of the "anthropocene" as the era in which humankind has significantly impacted the carrying capacity of the biosphere -- with notable episodes including the breakup of Arctic ice that is the planet's thermostat and weather initiator, an unprecedented loss of biodiversity, the steady erosion of arable land, and an ongoing depletion of freshwater supplies.

    Randall Amster: New Clear Energy Randall Amster 2010

  • Also in this time frame we have seen the birth of the "anthropocene" as the era in which humankind has significantly impacted the carrying capacity of the biosphere -- with notable episodes including the breakup of Arctic ice that is the planet's thermostat and weather initiator, an unprecedented loss of biodiversity, the steady erosion of arable land, and an ongoing depletion of freshwater supplies.

    Randall Amster: New Clear Energy Randall Amster 2010

  • Also in this time frame we have seen the birth of the "anthropocene" as the era in which humankind has significantly impacted the carrying capacity of the biosphere -- with notable episodes including the breakup of Arctic ice that is the planet's thermostat and weather initiator, an unprecedented loss of biodiversity, the steady erosion of arable land, and an ongoing depletion of freshwater supplies.

    Randall Amster: New Clear Energy Randall Amster 2010

  • Also in this time frame we have seen the birth of the "anthropocene" as the era in which humankind has significantly impacted the carrying capacity of the biosphere -- with notable episodes including the breakup of Arctic ice that is the planet's thermostat and weather initiator, an unprecedented loss of biodiversity, the steady erosion of arable land, and an ongoing depletion of freshwater supplies.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Randall Amster 2010

  • The Nobel Prize – winning atmospheric scientist Paul Crutzen — one of the first cheerleaders for investigating the gas-the-planet strategy — recently argued that geologists should refer to the past two centuries as the “anthropocene” period.

    Re-Engineering the Earth 2009

  • The Nobel Prize – winning atmospheric scientist Paul Crutzen — one of the first cheerleaders for investigating the gas-the-planet strategy — recently argued that geologists should refer to the past two centuries as the “anthropocene” period.

    Re-Engineering the Earth 2009

  • The term “Anthropocene” to describe the “human dominance of biological, chemical and geological processes on Earth” was first introduced in 2000 in an article jointly written by Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer.

    Racial Capitalocene 2023

  • Geologists first named it the Recent, then morphed it into the Holocene, and now debate whether to spin it off as an Anthropocene.

    The planet is burning around us: is it time to declare the Pyrocene? – Stephen J Pyne | Aeon Essays Stephen J Pyne 2023

  • The term Anthropocene, from the Ancient Greek word anthropos, meaning “human”, acknowledges that humans are the major cause of the earth’s current transformation.

    'A reckoning for our species': the philosopher prophet of the Anthropocene Alex Blasdel 2021

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