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| PurpleDragon |
Man-Made Changes Bring About New Epoch in Earth's HistoryMan-Made Changes Bring About New Epoch in Earth's HistoryAlphaGalileo [UK], 25 January 2008 Geologists from the University of Leicester propose that humankind has so altered the Earth that it has brought about an end to one epoch of Earth’s history and marked the start of a new epoch. Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams at the University of Leicester and their colleagues on the Stratigraphy Commission of the Geological Society of London have presented their research in the journal GSA Today. In it, they suggest humans have so changed the Earth that on the planet the Holocene epoch has ended and we have entered a new epoch - the Anthropocene. They have identified human impact through phenomena such as: Transformed patterns of sediment erosion and deposition worldwide; Major disturbances to the carbon cycle and global temperature; Wholesale changes to the world’s plants and animals; Ocean acidification. The scientists analysed a proposal made by Nobel Prize-winning chemist Paul Crutzen in 2002. He suggested the Earth had left the Holocene and started the Anthropocene era because of the global environmental effects of increased human population and economic development. Short URL: http://snipr.com/1yd0y |
| Smooth Hound |
Yes its a worry, especially when countries like america think that it will all be sorted by giving there citizens massive tax breaks in order to keep this so called system afloat in the hope they spend it and keep the planet scavenging going, and were not much better,No i think the planet/nature/god or what each of us call it , knows best and it needs to change to survive, all we need now is for people to decide whether they want to be apart of that change, or be discarded along with the unwanted. Its got to be an international decision too, so doesnt hold much hope 
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