MurrayM
Guru
While people debate if we're still in the Holocene or have moved into the Anthropocene (where the dominant force for ecological change on Earth is Humanity) future fossil evidence of our impact is accumulating.
Chris Jordan photographs of dead Albatross chicks with stomachs full of plastic items:
Chris Jordan - Midway
Juvenile whale starves to death with 88 pounds of plastic in its stomach:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/03/whale-dies-88-pounds-plastic-philippines/
Such fossils (and other evidence) found above a layer of nuclear bomb testing fallout in the geologic record should be ample evidence of a major change.
Sigh...
On a brighter note, I'm confident Life on Earth will prevail despite whatever short term (geologically speaking) impacts we may be generating. Even if we fried the whole surface of the planet there are organisms between crystals in rocks and around deep sea thermal vents.
So I'm optimistic for Life, but sometimes not so much for us.
Sorry for being a downer, but the whale story made me remember the albatross photos and it bummed me out. Think I'll take a walk with the dog and enjoy an awesome early spring day
Chris Jordan photographs of dead Albatross chicks with stomachs full of plastic items:
Chris Jordan - Midway
Juvenile whale starves to death with 88 pounds of plastic in its stomach:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/03/whale-dies-88-pounds-plastic-philippines/
Such fossils (and other evidence) found above a layer of nuclear bomb testing fallout in the geologic record should be ample evidence of a major change.
Sigh...
On a brighter note, I'm confident Life on Earth will prevail despite whatever short term (geologically speaking) impacts we may be generating. Even if we fried the whole surface of the planet there are organisms between crystals in rocks and around deep sea thermal vents.
So I'm optimistic for Life, but sometimes not so much for us.
Sorry for being a downer, but the whale story made me remember the albatross photos and it bummed me out. Think I'll take a walk with the dog and enjoy an awesome early spring day