Post-human Earth: How the planet will recover from us - environment - 30 September 2009 - New Scientist: "WHEN Nobel prize-winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen coined the word Anthropocene around 10 years ago, he gave birth to a powerful idea: that human activity is now affecting the Earth so profoundly that we are entering a new geological epoch.
The Anthropocene has yet to be accepted as a geological time period, but if it is, it may turn out to be the shortest - and the last. It is not hard to imagine the epoch ending just a few hundred years after it started, in an orgy of global warming and overconsumption."
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I challenge these scientists to get away from their microscopes and watch daytime TV for a week, because I think we are already in the post-human era.
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