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Ivy Shih
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“Since the Industrial Revolution, we have scattered soot across the planet and relentlessly stirred in radioactive elements, inconceivable mounds of plastic, pesticides, excess nitrogen and phosphorus, billions of skeletons from livestock, and enough concrete to spread a kilogram over every square metre of the Earth. Each year mining shifts three times more rock and dirt than all the world’s rivers, and humans are reconfiguring the course of evolution as we rearrange species across continents and eliminate many more.”
― The Best Australian Science Writing 2022
― The Best Australian Science Writing 2022
“Imagine one sheet of toilet paper is 100 years. If there are 200 sheets in a roll, then a single roll represents 20,000 years. A hundred of those and you’ve jumped back two million years, to when our genus Homo split off from our other hominid ancestors. ‘Then you can go back and you can keep on playing,’ he says. ‘Once you’ve got a whole building full of toilet papers [30,000 rolls], you’re back in the Precambrian.”
― The Best Australian Science Writing 2022
― The Best Australian Science Writing 2022
“feels and smells as if it could have toppled a year ago. Yet when this tree last stood upright and felt the sunlight on its leaves, Neanderthals and Denisovans still walked the Earth. Homo sapiens – still many millennia away from reaching New Zealand – had only recently colonised Europe and begun to make art.”
― The Best Australian Science Writing 2022
― The Best Australian Science Writing 2022
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