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Politics : Mainstream Politics and Economics

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From: koan3/26/2012 9:33:07 PM
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A word Republican's need to learn. Great animation and worth a look.

The thesis: "anthropocene!

<<They agree that changes to the world since about 1950 have been startling - rapid spread of the human population, accelerating exploitation of forests and marine resources, surging economic growth in successive waves across the world, and so on.

This radical reshaping of the natural world by a single species is certainly unprecedented in Earth history, which a few years back led to scientists Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer coining a special name for our epoch - the Anthropocene.

(The Planet under Pressure organisers have made an animated video of humanity's journey of expansion, by the way, which you can see here.)
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