Scientists say human activity has so profoundly changed the earth that we’re now living in a new epoch, the Anthropocene.
Our age is marked by mass extinctions, pollution and climate change.
Yet we’re slow to comprehend the scale of the problem or to act to avert disaster.
That’s why we need radical histories for these uncanny times.
Recorded 15 February 2018 Australian Museum
Speaker:
Professor Tom Griffiths AO Director of the Centre of Environmental History ANU
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bigideas/radical-histories-for-uncanny-times/9478670
Important lecture. Understanding our ecological past before we can understand the present and how we are continuing our destruction of our ecology.
Watching the news about the Arctic today. I predict we’re about to head into a very difficult time for weather, etc. this year, starting in about a month, in the Northern Hem.
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