Sunday, July 24, 2011

How Human Beings Are Downgrading Life on Planet Earth

Posted by  Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 2:24 pm



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We live in the Anthropocene, as some scientists have come to call our new geologic era. The term acknowledges the fact that human beings—nearly 7 billion strong and growing—have so much influence over the life, geography and even chemistry of planet Earth that we're now essentially responsible for the whole show. For good and for ill, the planet from now on will be what we make of it./.../

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