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Posts Tagged ‘Anthropocene Working Group’

The event that might be big

Posted in Anthropocene, tagged , on December 19, 2022 | 1 Comment »

The New York Times’ Raymond Zhong summarizes the latest deliberations on the Anthropocene in an article called “For Planet Earth, This Might Be the Start of a New Age.” The article features some good implicit sociology-of-science: Like the zoologists who regulate the names of animal species or the astronomers who decide what counts as a planet, […]

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Welcome to the… Meghalayan?

Posted in Anthropocene, tagged , , , , , , , , on August 12, 2018 | 8 Comments »

Geology watchers were more than a little surprised last month to learn that we are living in a new age called the Meghalayan, which apparently began about 4200 years ago. After all the excitement over the Anthropocene, it seems that a rival group of geological stratigraphers — one tasked with naming the sub-parts of the Holocene — has […]

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Anthropocenic reckoning

Posted in Anthropocene, Philosophy, tagged , , , on January 17, 2015 | 2 Comments »

With environmental and eco-political news in the front pages daily, it’s easy to get back into the swing of regular, even daily, posting after the winter holiday lull. Here’s more on the “dating the ecocrisis” theme… Andy Revkin is reporting that the Anthropocene Working Group has concluded that the middle of the twentieth century makes […]

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