Jody T.

“The present day is marked by pervasive environmental changes that are clear in almost every geological deposit, whether glacier ice, stalagtites, or sediments from lake-beds or the ocean floor. From spherical carbonaceous particles to microplastics to changes in the carbon and nitrogen cycles indicated by the changing levels of certain carbon and nitrogen isotopes, a human fingerprint is obvious.”
― Simon L. Lewis, The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene

“We have altered the Earth system physically and chemically through disrupting the global cycling of carbon, causing warming of the surface of the Earth and acidification of the oceans; and biologically, through species extinctions and the movement of many species to new locations. Of these myriad changes, summarized in Figure 8.1, some are being preserved in geological archives, including glacier ice and sediments accumulating on the ocean floor.”
― Simon L. Lewis, The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene

“If all other emissions stopped immediately, it would take converting about 50 per cent of all the world’s croplands to forest to reduce carbon dioxide levels to 350 ppm by 2100.”
― Simon L. Lewis, The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene

“As the twentieth-century German physicist Max Planck famously quipped, ‘a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
― Simon L. Lewis, The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene