Looking at how humans survive when compared to other animals, it is not surprising that there is an age of humans, but not an age for other animals. Humans along with most other animals manipulate their surrounding nature in order… Continue Reading →
Throughout Professor Fleming’s critique of Big History, I was repeatedly reminded of similar discussion we had in my AY248 class (Anthropological Perspectives on Science and Religion). One major idea we’ve been exploring in AY248 is the ways in which western… Continue Reading →
The world is 4.5 billion years old, an amount of time almost unimaginable for humans. We have only inhabited the earth 200,000 years, yet are already making a drastic impact on the Earth’s ecosystem. This new age has become a… Continue Reading →
I always find that discussing the human’s impact on the Planet Earth always leaves a bad taste in people’s mouthes. I know that personally, a lot of the time, walking out of a talk like that, the solution seems impossible…. Continue Reading →
From Professor Fleming You were an awesome and receptive audience Tuesday evening. Thank you. Here is a special issue of Guernica magazine of relevance to the Sept. 15 lecture on the Anthropocene, https://www.guernicamag.com/features/the-boundaries-of-nature/ Note especially this article, https://www.guernicamag.com/features/the-age-of-loneliness/
Our planet has experienced billions years of evolution. Naturally, disregarding human existence, the earth would still have evolved and transformed. It can be seen through climate change records that our existence has exponentially boosted earth’s systematic changes. We have taken… Continue Reading →
It seems almost like a requirement of our generation to try and “fix” what we are doing to the earth. In middle school, we were taught about recycling programs and how the little things we did could have massive impacts… Continue Reading →
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