Clare Snow’s Reviews > The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History > Status Update

"If current trends continue, then by around 2050 visitors to the Great Barrier Reef will arrive to find rapidly eroding rubble banks."

"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."

'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.'

"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??

"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.'"