Anthropocene
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- Created on: 25-04-19 14:04
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- Anthropocene
- How humanity has become a geophysical force that is irreversibly changing the planet
- By defining a new geological epoch, scientists are declaring human effects irreversible
- Deeply debated, not settled yet
- By defining a new geological epoch, scientists are declaring human effects irreversible
- What is the Stratigraphy?
- Branch of geology concerned with order and relative position of rock strata and their relationship to geological timescales.
- Timeprint
- We have ability to change our future generations
- Impact of our present mode of life extends across time and space
- Utopian material of the 20th Century, created a dystopian future
- Plastic Digesting Material
- A bacterium named ideonella sakaiensis 201-F6, may have evolved enzymes specifically capable of breaking down PET in plastic
- This could endanger structures which have been built using this material
- Raises questions of responsibility and human agency in sociology
- Dichotomy
- Traditional distinction between natural and human history
- Separates social from natural
- Has been linked to inequalities and oppression
- Many humans treated as part of natures - EXAMPLE: African slaves
- Can only produce a more just and sustainable future by overcoming entrenched dichotomy
- John Urry (2011)
- Used approach to prove material and social are related
- Need to recognise capitalism
- Responses
- Do nothing
- Prepare for catastrophes to come
- Innovate low carbon lives
- Weaknesses
- Focuses on one single humanity - which is not reality
- Ignores class, race and gender
- Questions of justice and equity, not everyone is to blame
- Political
- Entangled in conflicts between left and right
- Drastic reconfiguration of capitalism and social change needed
- How humanity has become a geophysical force that is irreversibly changing the planet
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