David Grinspoon Quote
Two stratigraphers asked, Is the Anthropocene an Issue of Stratigraphy or Pop Culture? In part, they argued that our presence is as yet too brief a perturbation to merit a named place in the stratigraphic column. The amount of ocean sediments laid down since World War II is less than a millimeter. And, of course, nobody knows how long the Anthropocene will last. That depends crucially on how we, collectively, respond to the novel realization that we’re now in such a time. Our presence, however, is already indelibly inscribed in Earth’s stratigraphic history, and as long as (or whenever) there are geologists, it will be identifiable. Whether or not it becomes official,
David Grinspoon
Two stratigraphers asked, Is the Anthropocene an Issue of Stratigraphy or Pop Culture? In part, they argued that our presence is as yet too brief a perturbation to merit a named place in the stratigraphic column. The amount of ocean sediments laid down since World War II is less than a millimeter. And, of course, nobody knows how long the Anthropocene will last. That depends crucially on how we, collectively, respond to the novel realization that we’re now in such a time. Our presence, however, is already indelibly inscribed in Earth’s stratigraphic history, and as long as (or whenever) there are geologists, it will be identifiable. Whether or not it becomes official,