GS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Terra Incognita, Paul J. Crutzen, Copernican Revolution
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Paul crutzen: 5 years before he uttered the words above, crutzen won the nobel prize for work that helped make the connection between cfc and the destruction of the ozone layer, the claim. Human activities have becomes so pervasive and profound that they rival the great forces of nature and are pushing the earth into planetary terra incognita. The earth is rapidly moving into a less biologically diverse, less forested, much warmer, and probably wetter and stormier state . Earth system: key declaration in the earth system rhetoric is that human beings, their societies and their activities are an integral component of the earth system (not passive responders) this is the. 10-25% includes all of us - capitalocene: capitalocene is a kind of critical provocation to this sensibility of the anthropocene, which is: we have met the enemy and he is us.
