Stop Trying to Save the Planet is an interesting op-ed by Erle Ellis Ph.D., the director of the Laboratory for Anthropogenic Landscape Ecology.
“[Nature] was gone before you were born, before your parents were born, before the pilgrims arrived, before the pyramids were built. You are living on a used planet…We now live in the Anthropocene–a geological epoch in which [Earth has been] shaped primarily by human forces.“
The thesis reminds me of one of E.O. Wilson’s statement that (paraphrasing) humans have tipped everything [...]
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