Sentences with phrase «anthropocene era of history»

400 ppm is just a milestone, but it's one more indicator that we are living in the Anthropocene era of history where human activity significantly affects the environment and subsequently, our food, water and energy security.

Four hundred ppm is just a milestone, but it's just one more indicator that we are living in the Anthropocene era of history where human activity significantly affects the environment and subsequently, our food, water and energy security.

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That's why geologists have come up with a new name for this new era in the planet's 4.5 billion year history: the Anthropocene, or the «age of man.»

William Ruddiman has proposed the early anthropocene hypothesis, according to which the anthropocene era, as some people call the most recent period in the Earth's history when the activities of the human race first began to have a significant global impact on the Earth's climate and ecosystems, did not begin in the eighteenth century with the advent of the Industrial Era, but dates back to 8000 years ago, due to intense farming activities of our early agrarian ancestoera, as some people call the most recent period in the Earth's history when the activities of the human race first began to have a significant global impact on the Earth's climate and ecosystems, did not begin in the eighteenth century with the advent of the Industrial Era, but dates back to 8000 years ago, due to intense farming activities of our early agrarian ancestoEra, but dates back to 8000 years ago, due to intense farming activities of our early agrarian ancestors.

Wouldn't it be a great achievement if the anthropocene, the age of human dominance on Earth, goes down in history as an era of rethinking and changing behaviour?»

We are delighted to invite you to attend our Big History Anthropocene Conference: A Transdisciplinary Exploration in Sydney, Australia.The human race has had such a profound impact on the climate and environment of the Earth that some have proposed we have entered a new geological era — the Anthropocene.

HK: The sky - roof, the dome, the history of the building and the neighbourhood were definite sources of inspiration for our exhibition making and conceptual framework, which links to issues of climate change, nature and the Anthropocene era.

Jeremy Jackson, a lead author of the report, wrote a compelling piece on the findings for the Ocean Portal blog of the National Museum of Natural History that includes this vital line, which is in sync with my assertion that we can chart a «good» path in this turbulent Anthropocene era:

Anthropocene, of course, is the shorthand term that is increasingly being used to describe an era in Earth history named for its causative element — us.

Over the past few decades, the term «Anthropocene» has climbed out of academic discourse and into the popular imagination — a name given to the geologic era we live in now, and a way to signal that it is a new era, defined on the wall chart of deep history by human intervention.