“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Saturday, January 9, 2016

Science on the Anthropocene

Thanks to Cymene Howe, anthropologist extraordinaire, for pointing me in the direction of this essay in Science. Stratigraphy--that branch of geology committed to examining Earth's strata--is beginning to validate the Anthropocene concept with more and more evidence.

No comments: