… a geological age of our own making …

Quote of the Day — 31 January 2011

” … Perhaps earth scientists of the future will name this new post-Holocene era for its causative element — for us. We are entering an age that might someday be referred to as, say, the Anthrocene. After all, it is a geological age of our own making. The challenge now is to find a way to act that will make geologists of the future look upon this age as a remarkable time, a time in which a species began to take into account the long-term impact of its actions. The alternative may be to leave a legacy of irresponsibility and neglect of the biosphere that could eventually manifest itself in the fossil record as just one more mass extinction — like the record of bones and footprints left behind by the dinosaurs. * …”

— Andrew Revkin
— Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast, 1992
— “Earth is Us“
— Dot Earth
— New York Times

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