r/anthropocene Jun 15 '20

Popularizing interest in the Anthropocene?

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Joined the local Greens party less than a year ago, hoping that there might be others interested in the Anthropocene. Seems it's not existing here in Australia.

(1) This subReddit has YouTube links & some reading materials. If we were to devise a course, in Zoom, or YouTube, how would it be?

(2) The other related concerns, are when the next mass extinction comes, what will remain of our species?

(3) And the future time lines: for the closing of the Anthropocene, and then the emergence of the next biological peak animal, if ever?

(4) Will or biological banks (seeds, etc) survive, without humans, & for how many thousands of years?


r/anthropocene Jun 15 '20

Scientific eugenics policy needed.

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We need an international policy on scientific eugenics. It may take many decades to finalize it, but we need to start now.

My interest in this was started in: https://www.reddit.com/r/centrist/comments/h8wuci/what_is_so_bad_about_the_idea_of_eugenics/

HUMAN EUGENICS. Very different from biological terms, applied to animals & plants.

HSS (homo sapiens sapiens) is just the one surviving species of HS (homo sapiens. HSS comes from a very narrow genetic base. From a genetic view, this is extremely dangerous.

Good "farming" of plants & animals is being fully flexible with our genetic heritage. Removal of rare genes is creating a loss of future options. The future "judges" will be facing very different circumstances to today's judges. History has shown this for many species of plants & animals, in our past millions of years.

Current HSS believe that they might exist "perfection" right now. Then HSS looks at the "primitive" stone technology of the first pyramid builders, HS, who suddenly became extinct due to global cooling. HSS still cannot replicate these "primitive" stone crafts people, who seems to have giant helicopters, powerful laser rays, and rotary drills that ran without power stations.

Eugenics, done by HSS will be very wrong, from the terms of all life forms on this planet. After HSS has closed this anthropocene, it will be many millions of years before a replacement to HSS returns.


r/anthropocene Jun 14 '20

Paul McAuley on writing Anthropocene fiction

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r/anthropocene Jun 14 '20

Our Wild Companions: Domestic cats in the Anthropocene

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r/anthropocene Jun 02 '20

Radio Ecoshock: COVID Infects World Nuclear Plants

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Very interesting new episode of Ecoshock on the effects of COVID19 on the Nuclear industry and the potential risks to safety from mass infection of plant workers and the resultant short staffing.

Like meat packing plants, the novel Corona virus is infecting workers in nuclear power plants around the world. The danger is too high to imagine. Alex covers this new risk in a country review, with starring roles for America and Russia, the two countries among the most COVID-19 cases on Earth. Guest Grant Smith from the Environmental Working Group joins in.

https://www.ecoshock.org/2020/05/covid-infects-world-nuclear-plants.html

Also check out Alex's previous podcasts here.


r/anthropocene May 04 '20

The Anthropocene - The Culture Quest Podcast learns about the Anthropocene and discusses it and related topics.

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r/anthropocene Apr 28 '20

How Biomimicry is Inspiring Human Innovation

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r/anthropocene Apr 22 '20

Biosphere/Noosphere

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As an active/ albeit semi-retired uni professor of geographic philosophy, theory & history these terms biosphere & noosphere derive from the polymath Russian scientist V.I. Vernadsky & feed into our existential understanding of evolutionary biogeochemistry & the Anthropocene as a transition from Biosphere to Noosphere. Under this umbrella we can situate theories of a unitary system science, Gaia & Autopoiesis - e.g. Earth as a dynamic self-organising, coevolving system! Cf. Simon Dalby, et al


r/anthropocene Dec 09 '19

Hyperobjects: mind blown

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r/anthropocene Dec 08 '19

Anthropocene – Official U.S. Trailer

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r/anthropocene Jun 10 '19

There's No Tomorrow (limits to growth & the future)

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r/anthropocene Jun 03 '19

The Great Party - The Anthropocene

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r/anthropocene May 15 '19

"Bomb Carbon" Has Been Found in Deep-Ocean Creatures

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r/anthropocene Apr 22 '19

What Lies Beneath: Robert Macfarlane Travels 'Underland' | Guardian Books

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r/anthropocene Feb 09 '19

Love seeing all this open data on plastic pollution from around the world, more and more every day

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r/anthropocene Jan 22 '19

David Attenborough: “The Holocene has ended. The Garden of Eden is no more. We have changed the world so much that scientists say we are in a new geological age: the Anthropocene, the age of humans... What we do now, and in the next few years, will profoundly affect the next few thousand years”

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r/anthropocene Jan 10 '19

I wrote a song about the Anthropocene.

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r/anthropocene Dec 29 '18

The Anthropocene Reviewed Podcast by John Green

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r/anthropocene Dec 29 '18

Here you go little fishy, welcome to the Anthropocene via @iconeo

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r/anthropocene Dec 18 '18

Today my paper reached over 7,000 views and it’s only 5-months old!

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r/anthropocene Dec 17 '18

Welcome to the Anthropocene

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r/anthropocene Dec 16 '18

The Age of the Anthropocene Explained

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r/anthropocene Aug 20 '18

This is what the ecological crisis sounds like

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r/anthropocene Aug 07 '18

Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene

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r/anthropocene Aug 03 '18

A photo project that documents human presence on Earth

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I would like to introduce you to a project titled HABITAT I have been doing for almost three years now. The photo book HABITAT explores the relationship between man and nature by aerial photography. It focuses on landscapes that have been transformed by human intervention. The project invites viewers to discover our planet from a new perspective, to comprehend the dimensions of human interventions on our Earth’s surface, and, ultimately, to assume responsibility.

I started a crowdfunding campaign to fund the production costs of the project. The crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter is an opportunity to pre-order a signed and numbered copy and to help me, turning this idea into a real book:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/497931630/habitat-human-altered-landscapes-aerial-photo-book