Comments on: Book review – The Anthropocene as a Geological Time Unit: A Guide to the Scientific Evidence and Current Debate

By: Book review – Biocivilisations: A New Look at the Science of Life | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 31 May 2024 11:43:30 +0000

[…] as something that exalts humans. Instead, I mostly encounter (contained) horror amongst Earth scientists and environmental historians at the scale and speed with which we have come to dominate and damage […]

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By: Book review – The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 09 May 2022 10:32:49 +0000

[…] with the Anthropocene, the question of when the Pyrocene started naturally arises. Pyne proposes both a long and a short […]

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By: Book review – Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World – and Us | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 20 Apr 2022 13:22:49 +0000

[…] buildup of impact. Nevertheless, I find the concept of the Great Acceleration centred on the 1950s a convincing argument – to me, it represents a clear break with what came before in terms of speed and scale of our […]

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By: Book review – Notes from Deep Time: A Journey Through Our Past and Future Worlds | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 04 Mar 2022 12:51:08 +0000

[…] most recent one being called the Meghalayan. Partially this was because others are still working on the stratigraphical case for the Anthropocene. She listens to the arguments put forth by both proponents and opponents of these concepts. She […]

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By: Book review – The Incredible Journey of Plants | The Inquisitive Biologist

Book review – The Incredible Journey of Plants | The Inquisitive Biologist — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 10:12:52 +0000

[…] survived the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, or giving you a deft two-sentence explanation of the difficulties faced by stratigraphers trying to define new geological epochs such as the […]

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By: Book review – Life Changing: How Humans Are Altering Life on Earth | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 16 Aug 2021 10:18:37 +0000

[…] peppered moth evolving in response to changes in air pollution, the gene-editing tool CRISPR, or the stratigraphical definition of the Anthropocene and what marker will be suitable (it might just be chicken bones). For all of these topics, she […]

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By: Book review – Dead Zones: The Loss of Oxygen from Rivers, Lakes, Seas, and the Ocean | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 21 Jun 2021 16:32:59 +0000

[…] and phosphorus release is one of many indicators used by scientists to define the start of the Anthropocene. Two key figures Kirchman introduces here are Fritz Haber and Karl Bosch. The former developed a […]

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By: Book review – The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene Since 1945 | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 27 Jan 2021 16:05:51 +0000

[…] even overwhelming, Earth’s natural biogeochemical cycles. I have previously reviewed The Anthropocene as a Geological Time Unit which makes the geological case for this term (McNeill contributed to this book). The Great […]

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By: Book review – Cataclysms: An Environmental History of Humanity | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sun, 17 Jan 2021 16:39:22 +0000

[…] of the Tambora volcanic eruption. The Great Acceleration in the 20th century and the recognition of the Anthropocene. All of these have been chronicled at length in books and other […]

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By: Book review – Planetary Accounting: Quantifying How to Live Within Planetary Limits at Different Scales of Human Activity | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 14 Oct 2020 17:55:06 +0000

[…] In case you are not yet familiar with it, the planetary boundaries framework was developed by Johan Rockström and colleagues and presented in a 2009 Nature paper, followed by a book for a general audience in 2014, and further refinements proposed in a 2015 Science paper. It is an Earth systems science framework that demarcates a “safe operating space for humanity” by identifying nine planetary processes and systems with their boundary values. Think climate change, biodiversity loss, or ozone depletion. For several of these, we have crossed the limit and are collectively pushing our environment towards a new state that is likely to be a lot less friendly to human life. A case is even being made that we have entered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. […]

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