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Journal Article
\Inhabitants of the Same World\: The Colonial History of Geological Time
2018
Overview
At the 35th International Geological Congress, held in South Africa in late 2016, the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) presented its eagerly awaited evidence that the earth has now entered the Anthropocene Epoch, a subdivision of the longer quaternary period of the planet's history. The group argued that human beings now constitute a force of nature on a geological scale, fundamentally restructuring earth systems to the extent that that, \"even if all anthropogenic forcings\" of the climate \"ceased tomorrow,\" \"the defining characteristics of the present stratigraphic signal\" would \"continue to be detectable in geological strata\" It is \"not the fact that humans are currently the main driving force of change,\" that is the most significant factor in the naming of this new geological epoch, the group continued, but \"the scale, nature, pace and novelty of human impact\" In other words, it is the grandeur of the change that matters: \"the stratigraphic record has been set on an irreversible trajectory\" the authors write, marked by \"important events on the planetary scale.\"
Publisher
University of Iowa,University of Iowa, Philological Quarterly
