Interesting point. Thanks. I might slightly change that to something like, "the point in history at which humans took deliberate control of nature at the planetary scale." In that view, the arc of humanity is characterized by the control of nature on successively larger scales. Of course, for many, this is exactly what they hate most about humans....
On Wednesday, July 26, 2023 at 2:08:22 AM UTC-7 p.j.irvine wrote: > *New Substack post > <https://peteirvine.substack.com/p/it-started-with-a-flash-brighter> - It > started with a flash brighter than a thousand suns...* > > The Anthropocene started with a flash brighter than a thousand suns, but > will it come to be defined by a sun one thousandth as bright? > > "When historians, centuries in the future, reflect on how the Anthropocene > shaped up, they may not see the atomic bomb as the defining technology of > the age. They may think of SAI instead: A deliberate, global, technological > intervention to manage the consequences of our yet-to-be-constrained > impacts on the environment" > > Cheers, > > Pete > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/c9a5b6c9-844b-46a1-8635-dc1977e0ba4cn%40googlegroups.com.
