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Anthropocene
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The problem with the United Nations isn’t that the politicians there are ignorant,
hidebound, self-interested, or corrupt. The problem with our response to climate change isn’t a problem with passing the right laws or finding the right price for carbon or changing people’s minds or raising awareness. Everybody already knows. The problem is that the problem is too big. The problem is that different people want different things. The problem is that nobody has real answers. The problem is that the
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― Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization
― Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization
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A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount of sediment moved each year by Earth’s natural erosive processes, which is to say rivers grinding away sand and sending it down towards the sea. Humans, in other words, are a considerably bigger geological force than nature itself, and have been, according to the data, ever since 1955. Or – another w
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― Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
― Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
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