Does this mean we now have to give up eating tortoise for breakfast?
David
On Aug 29, 2016, at 11:12 PM, epostboxx@xxxxxxxx wrote:
On 09 Aug 2016 I appended my posting “Old (REALLY old) news” with the phrase
“sometime in the second epoch
of the Quaternary period” — i.e., the Holocene.
Now I read that since July 16th, 1945 (according to one group of geoplogists;
some recommend a date as early as 1604, others as late as 1964) humankind has
been living in the Anthropocene:
“a proposed epoch that begins when human activities started to have a
significant global impact on Earth's geology and ecosystems. … [T]he Working
Group on the Anthropocene (WGA)[has]voted to formally designate the epoch
Anthropocene and present the recommendation to the International Geological
Congress ...”
Interested list members can read more about the ‘New Age’ at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene
Chris Bruce,
resetting his geological
alarm clock, in
Kiel, Germany
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