Apologies to both Olivers for slightly eliding their views in reply after misreadng Tickell's response to be Morton's
On Monday, July 15, 2013 6:25:30 AM UTC-4, Oliver Tickell wrote: > > An interesting thought, but of course there is much more to it than > botanical gardens. Commercial introductions, seeds in shoes, gardeners, > military usage ... and then of course all the animals, from rats to cane > toads to sheep to anopheles mosquitos ... and let's not forget the fungi, > such as the phytophera now causing havoc. Oliver. > > On 14/07/2013 01:05, Russell Seitz wrote: > > In writing of " homogocene issues " Oliver Morton has floated a variation > of the theme of the 'anthropocene ' that might take on a life of its own > . > > Though Greek-Latin portmanteau words are deservedly suspect , there has > long been a need for an adjective to designate and reify a very important > ecological consequence of the age of exploration-- the nonchalant > homogenization of the biosphere that arose from the intercontinental > exchange of flora via the botanical gardens of the imperial powers of the > 18th and 19th centuries. > > By darwin's day, every nation had one , and they collectively > transferred such no-longer-exotics as rhododendrons, eucalypts and > arucaria, to name but a few, together with their symbionts and soil fauna, > from uninhabited regions and obscure refugia to the four corners of the > earth. > > There's no getting around it- the Homogocene is to the Anthropocene as > the Pleistocene is to the Holocene > > > >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "geoengineering" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to geoengineerin...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to geoengi...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> > . > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
