In an article in Nature entitled “Defining the Anthropocene,” geographers and climate scientists Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin provide a new approach to dating this era that focuses on an event they call the “Orbis spike,” a dip in atmospheric CO2 occurring around 1610. Effectively, what their proposal does it to allow geologists to harmonize their work […]
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The Orbis spike
Posted in Anthropocene, tagged Anthropocene, capitalocene, environmental history, geology, modernity/coloniality research program, Orbis spike, world-systems theory on March 24, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
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