Attrition will sort this stall.

"The recommendation that the Anthropocene be denoted as a geological epoch was recently rejected by the International Union of Geological Sciences. Here, we compare the scientific rationales presented for the Anthropocene, the Holocene and the six other epochs in the Cenozoic Era: the Pleistocene, the Pliocene, the Miocene, the Oligocene, the Eocene and the Paleocene. We also present a historical perspective on the process through which the Holocene was accepted as a formal geological epoch. We conclude that, from a purely geological perspective, the scientific case for the Anthropocene as a geological epoch is stronger than the case for the Holocene and as good as or better than the cases for several other epochs in the Cenozoic Era."

#anthropocene

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024EF005719

Over A Third Of Groundwater In USA Public-Supply Aquifers Is Anthropocene[sic]-Age And Susceptible To Surface Contamination
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00473-y <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #surface #contamination #USA #waterquality #waterresources #groundwater #publicsupply #Anthropocene #potable #waterwell #municipal #watersupply #residential #age #aquifers #regional #landsurface #contamination #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #holocene #publicsafety #pumping #sustainability

In the shadow of a 19th-20th century slag pile, a beach has been transformed into a cemented platform of reworked slag particles.

The anthropogenic debris is so far out of equilibrium with surface conditions that you get rapid cement formation, and within decades, an anthropogenic "rock".

https://doi.org/10.1130/G52895.1

"If you find it difficult to think of a #river as alive, try picturing a dying or dead river. This is easier ... Can a forest think? Does a mountain remember? Is a river alive?"
One of my favourite nature writers is Robert Macfarlane. And since I can follow him again on another place, I get his new texts. Here's a great #essay from his coming #book 'Is A River Alive': https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/26/is-this-river-alive-robert-macfarlane-on-the-lives-deaths-and-rights-of-our-rivers

Dear Friends,
ICYMI, Clorox Australia is sanctioned (April 14) for falsely claiming its Glad plastic products were made from 50% recycled "ocean plastic."
https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/clorox-ordered-to-pay-825m-in-penalties-for-misleading-ocean-plastic-claims-about-certain-glad-products

ESM

#GreenWashing #trust
#OceanPlastics #Microplastics
#environment #anthropocene

New climate crisis book display up in the Scott Library at York University. I printed zines by @Aepasek and @hakan_geijer to give away. (Malm's How to Blow Up a Pipeline, and the film adaptation, on also on the table.)

(None of these displays ever look good in photos, but the space is grim and we do the best we can.)

How Everything Can Collapse by Pablo Servigne & Raphaël Stevens, 2020

Collapse is the horizon of our generation. But collapse is not the end – it’s the beginning of our future. We will reinvent new ways of living in the world and being attentive to ourselves, to other human beings and to all our fellow creatures.

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#Anthropocene
#collapse

The Anthropocene Illusion, China: Zed Nelson

Taking the concept of the Anthropocene, a term for the current period in Earth’s history, which is characterised by humans being the dominant influence on the environment, Nelson’s series focuses on humanity’s response to its impact on the planet.

@photography
#Anthropocene
#primates
#zoo