[greenyes] Climate Distruption - Part II of Must Read New Yorker Series

["Peter Anderson" <anderson@no.address>]

THE NEW YORKER - May 9, 2005
THE CLIMATE OF MAN-III
by ELIZABETH KOLBERT

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What can be done? A few years ago, in an article in Nature, the Dutch 
chemist Paul Crutzen coined a term. No longer, he wrote, should we think of 
ourselves as living in the Holocene, as the period since the last glaciation 
is known. Instead, an epoch unlike any of those which preceded it had begun. 
This new age was defined by one creature-man-who had become so dominant that 
he was capable of altering the planet on a geological scale. Crutzen, a 
Nobel Prize winner, dubbed this age the Anthropocene. He proposed as its 
starting date the seventeen-eighties, the decade in which James Watt 
perfected his steam engine and, inadvertently, changed the history of the 
earth.
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