Clare Snow’s Reviews > The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History > Status Update
Clare Snow
is 35% done
'The sorts of changes that Crutzen had enumerated [in describing the Anthropocene] would, they decided, leave behind "a global stratigraphic signature" that would still be legible millions of years from now, the same way that, say, the Ordovician glaciation left behind a "stratigraphic signature" that is still legible today.'
— Nov 06, 2025 04:08AM
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Clare Snow
is 42% done
"If current trends continue, then by around 2050 visitors to the Great Barrier Reef will arrive to find rapidly eroding rubble banks."
— Nov 09, 2025 01:18AM
Clare Snow
is 40% done
"Humans are putting carbon back into the air that has been sequestered for tens - in most cases hundreds - of millions of years. In the process, we are running geologic history not only in reverse but at warp speed."
— Nov 07, 2025 09:34PM
Clare Snow
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"Time is the essential ingredient, but in the modern world there is no time." - Rachel Carson
— Nov 07, 2025 09:29PM
Clare Snow
is 35% done
"The work is going well, but it looks like it might be the end of the world."
We fixed that end of the world (CFCs and the ozone layer) why can't we do it now??
— Nov 06, 2025 03:25AM
We fixed that end of the world (CFCs and the ozone layer) why can't we do it now??
Clare Snow
is 34% done
"Zalasiewicz believes that we have entered a new epoch, which has no analog in Earth's history. 'Geologically,' he has observed, 'this is a remarkable episode.'"
— Nov 06, 2025 03:21AM
