At the recent Encountering the Anthropocene conference convened by the University of Sydney, an Indigenous elder described to me some of the allusive stories of his people's empathetic relationships with whales. |
Keeping the Anthropocene free of ice ages will probably strike most people as a good idea. Dreams of a smart planetThat is an extreme example, though. |
Indeed, geologists now propose that this should be regarded as a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. |
In the Anthropocene era, freshwater will be in different places where it exists at all. |
The Anthropocene could be the period when humans get to prove just how well they deserve the specific name sapiens! |
The idea that we have already entered an Anthropocene Era exaggerates our impact on the Earth. |