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Etymology of Homogenocene
I think the etymology offered for Homogenocene must be wrong. There is no way that "homo" Latin for man would be used in this way. "Homo" appears in compounds as "homini-," not "homo," which form is only used as an independent word ("Homo sapiens"). Homogenocene probably is constructed from the word "homogeneous" + "cene"; the article in which the term first occurred was referring to the homogenization of life across the planet because of transfers of organisms by humans. Homogeneous comes from "homo" "same" and "gen" "kind" in Greek. Metrodorus (talk)
Removed further reading list
I've removed the further reading list, as I don't think such a long list is adding any value here. If any of the publications are very important, they should be used for inline citations.
- Bonneuil, Christophe; Fressoz, Jean-Baptiste.(2016) The Shock of the Anthropocene. The Earth, History and Us, Verso Books. Translated by David Fernbach. Originally published as L’événement Anthropocène: La terre, l’histoire et nous. Le Seuil 2013
- Davies, Jeremy (24 May 2016). The Birth of the Anthropocene (1st, hardcover ed.). Oakland: Wikidata Q114630752.
- Dixon, Simon J; Viles, Heather A; Garrett, Bradley L (2018). "Ozymandias in the Anthropocene: the city as an emerging landform". Area. 50: 117–125. ISSN 1475-4762.
- Duarte CM, Chapuis L, Collin SP, Costa DP, Devassy RP, Eguiluz VM, et al. (February 2021). "The soundscape of the Anthropocene ocean" (PDF). Science. 371 (6529): eaba4658. (PDF) from the original on 2021-05-10. Retrieved 2021-05-25.
- Edgeworth, Matt (October 2021). S2CID 236363574.
- Ellis, Erle (2018). Anthropocene: A Very Short Introduction. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198792987.
- Ellis, Erle C.; Fuller, Dorian Q.; Kaplan, Jed O.; Lutters, Wayne G. (2013). "Dating the Anthropocene: Towards an empirical global history of human transformation of the terrestrial biosphere". Elementa. 1: 000018. .
- Emmett, Robert, Thomas Lekan, eds. "Whose Anthropocene? Revisiting Dipesh Chakrabarty's ‘Four Theses,’" RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society 2016, no. 2. doi.org/10.5282/rcc/7421.
- Grinspoon, David (December 2016). "Welcome to Terra Sapiens". Aeon.
- ISBN 978-1509519750.
- Ialenti, Vincent. 2016. "Generation (Lexicon for An Anthropocene Yet Unseen)". Cultural Anthropology: Theorising the Contemporary. Archived from the original on 7 May 2016. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - Kim, Rakhyun E. (2021). "Taming Gaia 2.0: Earth System Law in the Ruptured Anthropocene". The Anthropocene Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/20530196211026721
- Kim, Rakhyun E.; Klaus Bosselmann (2013). "International Environmental Law in the Anthropocene: Towards a Purposive System of Multilateral Environmental Agreements". Transnational Environmental Law. 2 (2): 285–309. S2CID 146464921.
- Kress, W. John; Krupnick, Gary A. (2022). "Lords of the biosphere: Plant winners and losers in the Anthropocene". Plants, People, Planet. 4 (4): 350–366. S2CID 247388985.
- ISBN 978-1350081093.
- ISBN 978-1590566381.
- Purdy, Jedediah. (2015). "Anthropocene Fever". Aeon. pp. 1–9.
- Ruddiman, William F. (December 2003). "The anthropogenic greenhouse era began thousands of years ago". Climatic Change. 61 (3): 261–293. S2CID 2501894.
- Ruddiman, William F.; Stephen J. Vavrus & John E. Kutzbach (2005). "A test of the overdue-glaciation hypothesis" (PDF). Quaternary Science Reviews. 24 (1): 11. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2004.07.010. Archived from the original(PDF) on 3 October 2006.
- Ruddiman, William F. (2005). Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-12164-2.
- Schmidt, G. A.; D. T. Shindel & S. Harder (2004). "A note on the relationship between ice core methane concentrations and insolation". Geophysical Research Letters. 31 (23): L23206. S2CID 129005632.
- Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew (2017). "Some Islands Will Rise: Singapore in the Anthropocene". Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities. 4 (2): 166–184. S2CID 158809548.
- Sigurðsson, Geir (2016). "Anthropocosmic Processes in the Anthropocene: Revisiting Quantum Mechanics vs. Chinese Cosmology Comparison". In Bala, Arun; Duara, Prasenjit (eds.). The Bright Dark Ages: Comparative and Connective Perspectives. Knowledge Infrastructure and Knowledge Economy. Vol. 5. ISSN 1877-2323.
- Steffen, Will; Crutzen, Paul; McNeill, John (2007). "The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now Overwhelming the Great Forces of Nature?". Ambio: A Journal of the Human Environment. 36 (8): 614–621. S2CID 16218015.
- Steffen, Will; et al. (9 August 2018). "Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene". PMID 30082409.
- Thomas, Julia Adeney, Jan Zalasiewicz, "Strata and Three Stories." RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society 2020, no. 3. doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9205.
- Trischler, Helmuth, ed. "Anthropocene: Exploring the Future of the Age of Humans," RCC Perspectives 2013, no 3. doi.org/10.5282/rcc/5603.
- Visconti, Guido (2014). "Anthropocene: another academic invention?" (PDF). Rend. Fis. Acc. Lincei. 25 (3): 381–392. S2CID 128678966.
- "Human-Driven Planet: Time to Make It Official?". Science Now. January 2008.
- Klinkenborg, Verlyn (December 2016). What's Happening to the Bees and Butterflies? New York Review of Books
- Vanishing: The Sixth Mass Extinction, and How to stop the sixth mass extinction (December 2016), CNN.
- Williams, Mark; Zalasiewicz, Jan; Haff, P. K.; Schwägerl, Christian; Barnosky, Anthony D.; Ellis, Erle C. (2015). "The Anthropocene Biosphere". The Anthropocene Review. 2 (3): 196–219. S2CID 7771527.
- 'Ozymandias in the Anthropocene: the city as an emerging landform', Dixon S., et al. (2017) AREA, Royal Geographical Society ISSN 1475-4762
EMsmile (talk) 08:45, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
- There are already (as of this writing) 178 reference footnotes, which IMHO is a lot. I notice that the above list is almost alphabetized by author's name (but Ozymandias in the Anthropocene by Dixon et al. is mentioned both at its alphabetical position and at the very end, and Klinkenborg is after Visconti). Maybe this list could be added as a "Bibliography" section, and in a common format with the author name(s) (if any) always in front. I would have suggested a scrolling list (see MOS:SCROLL is against scrolling and collapsible lists in article space — though with a few exceptions: Collapsed or auto-collapsing cells or sections may be used with tables if they simply repeat information covered in the main text (or are purely supplementary, e.g…). Auto-collapsing is often a feature of navboxes. Maybe this list is "purely supplementary information" in which case it might fall into one of the exceptions. — Tonymec (talk) 03:49, 27 September 2023 (UTC)]
- What would be an advantage of a bibliography list? If any of those references are important they should be used as in-line citations. I think "further reading" lists might have been important in the days before Google but nowadays anyone can easily find more information themselves if they want. Hence we are better off keeping things short and succinct and not bombarding readers with longs lists (which would then have to be curated and updated...). EMsmile (talk) 08:45, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
Need better image in the lead
The current image for the lead showing light pollution is not really suitable for the lead image. Can someone propose a better one? Should we go for a 2 x 2 collage like at climate change mitigation? EMsmile (talk) 09:07, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
Removed content about kleptocene
I have taken this out because it's digressing and not
European colonization of the Americas:
Professor of Earth System Science Mark Maslin and Professor of Global Change Science Simon L. Lewis argue that the start of the Anthropocene should be dated to the Orbis Spike, a trough in carbon dioxide levels associated with the arrival of Europeans in the Americas. Reaching a minimum around 1610, global carbon dioxide levels were depressed below 285 parts per million, largely as a result of sequestration due to forest regrowth in the Americas. This was likely caused by indigenous peoples abandoning farmland following a sharp population decline due to initial
A number of other anthropologists, geographers, and postcolonial, settler colonial, and Indigenous theorists, including Métis anthropologist Zoe Todd and Potawatomi philosopher Kyle Powys Whyte have also linked the Anthropocene to the rise of European colonialism.[3][4][5][2][6][7][8] Because of these arguments, it has been suggested that the epoch should instead be called "The Kleptocene" to call "attention to colonialism's ongoing theft of land, lives (both human and nonhuman), and materials" that are "in large part responsible for contemporary ecological crisis."[9][10][11] EMsmile (talk) 09:30, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
References
- OCLC 1038430807.)
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link - ^ a b Maslin, Mark; Lewis, Simon (25 June 2020). "Why the Anthropocene began with European colonisation, mass slavery and the 'great dying' of the 16th century". The Conversation. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
- ISSN 1759-7188.
- OCLC 1081380012.
- ISSN 2213-3054.
- S2CID 213839818.
- ISSN 1492-9732.
- SSRN 2925277.
- ^ Keeler, Kyle (8 September 2020). "Colonial Theft and Indigenous Resistance in the Kleptocene". Edge Effects Magazine. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
- S2CID 233890511.
- ^ del Valle Schorske, Carina (11 March 2022). "A New, Stealthy Kind of Protest Music". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
EMsmile (talk) 09:30, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
- maybe this text block could be integrated into Early anthropocene rather. EMsmile (talk) 09:38, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
Culling out excessive detail on biodiversity loss
I've taken out this long paragraph that goes into too much detail. We have a sub-article for this on biodiversity loss. I guess the content could be moved to there if it's not already in there. I think we are better off with using an excerpt from biodiversity loss. Pinging User:C.J. Griffin and User:ASRASR for their information and comment.
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In a pair of studies published in 2015, extrapolation from observed extinction of Hawaiian snails of the family
References
- ^ "Research shows catastrophic invertebrate extinction in Hawai'i and globally". Phys.org. 10 August 2015. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
- PMID 26056308.
- S2CID 4985359.
- PMID 28696295.
Much less frequently mentioned are, however, the ultimate drivers of those immediate causes of biotic destruction, namely, human overpopulation and continued population growth, and overconsumption, especially by the rich. These drivers, all of which trace to the fiction that perpetual growth can occur on a finite planet, are themselves increasing rapidly.
- ^ Sutter, John D. (11 July 2017). "Sixth mass extinction: The era of 'biological annihilation'". CNN. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
- ^ Carrington, Damian (21 May 2018). "Humans just 0.01% of all life but have destroyed 83% of wild mammals – study". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
- PMID 30213888.
- ^ Watts, Jonathan (6 May 2019). "Human society under urgent threat from loss of Earth's natural life". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
- ^ Plumer, Brad (6 May 2019). "Humans are speeding extinction and altering the natural world at an 'unprecedented' pace". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
- ^ "Nature's dangerous decline 'unprecedented'; Species extinction rates 'accelerating'". Media Release. Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. 6 May 2019. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
- ^ Greenfield, Patrick (9 September 2020). "Humans exploiting and destroying nature on unprecedented scale – report". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
- ^ Rott, Nathan (10 September 2020). "The World Lost Two-Thirds Of Its Wildlife In 50 Years. We Are to Blame". NPR. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
- S2CID 227065128.
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EMsmile (talk) 09:53, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
- I can live with that. I think most of this is already present in that article.--C.J. Griffin (talk) 12:12, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
Some culling and condensing (Sept 2023)
I've just done some edits on this article. My approach is that this article is better off short and snappy, rather than going into excessive details for topics that have good sub-articles, such as biodiversity loss and climate change. Some of the content in the section on debates needs further trimming: one can see that this article has been the subject of numerous student assignments... Parts of is are written more like an essay or academic literature review than an encyclopedic entry. EMsmile (talk) 09:55, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
That's all, folks!
And so the proposed era has been put in the rubbish bin: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/20/climate/anthropocene-vote-upheld.html 182.239.146.143 (talk) 05:02, 23 March 2024 (UTC)