The Anthropocene: Comparing Its Meaning in Geology (Chronostratigraphy) with Conceptual Approaches Arising in Other Disciplines

Zalasiewicz, Jan; Waters, Colin N.; Ellis, Erle C.; Head, Martin J.; Vidas, Davor; Steffen, Will; Thomas, Julia Adeney; Horn, Eva; Summerhayes, Colin; Leinfelder, Reinhold; McNeill, John; Gałuszka, Agnieszka; Williams, Mark; Barnosky, Anthony D.; Richter, Daniel D.; Gibbard, Philip L.; Syvitski, Jaia; Jeandel, Catherine; Cearreta, Alejandro; Cundy, Andrew B.; Fairchild, Ian J.; Rose, Neil L.; Sul, Juliana A. Ivar do; Shotyk, William; Turner, Simon; Wagreich, Michael; Zinke, Jens

doi:10.1029/2020ef001896

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“… Lewis and Maslin, 2015 , Koch et al, 2019 ). This idea is not proven and alternative explanations exist for the CO 2 decline ( Zalasiewicz et al, 2015 , Zalasiewicz et al, 2021 , Rubino et al, 2016 ), but the hypothesis does usefully serve to highlight the possibility of atmospheric chemistry being altered by the consequences of anthropogenic epidemic disease. This in turn leads to the concept of disease-driven environmental change being of such a magnitude that it has a realistic possibility of being preserved in the geological record.…”

Section: Pandemic Preservation Potential In the Geological Recordmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This new disease pattern has accompanied a time of unprecedented human hypermobility, energy use, technological development and environmental impact on the biosphere, a collective phenomenon that has come to be termed the “Great Acceleration” of Anthropocene time (e.g. Waters et al, 2016 , Syvitski et al, 2020 , Zalasiewicz et al, 2021 ).…”

Section: Pandemic Preservation Potential In the Geological Recordmentioning

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Aerosol transmission of human pathogens: From miasmata to modern viral pandemics and their preservation potential in the Anthropocene record

Moreno

Gibbons²

2022

Geoscience Frontiers

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Section: Pandemic Preservation Potential In the Geological Recordmentioning

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Section: Pandemic Preservation Potential In the Geological Recordmentioning

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Aerosol transmission of human pathogens: From miasmata to modern viral pandemics and their preservation potential in the Anthropocene record

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Gibbons²

2022

Geoscience Frontiers

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“…In other words, extremely rapid economic development over the last decades has had an indelible impact on the Earth's surface, so intense, abrupt, and dramatic that humanity is now being virtually expelled from history. Since its identification, the Anthropocene represents an entirely new geological epoch [6,45], hence it can hardly contain a pre-geological age like modernity that is exclusively centered on human history: the new chronology of the Anthropocene reveals the limits of modernity, particularly its standardizing, uniformizing, and homogenizing connotations.…”

Section: The Geoethical Limits Of Hegemonic Institutions: Is the Nation-state System Sustainable?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Exemplary Ethical Communities. A New Concept for a Livable Anthropocene

Conversi

2021

Sustainability

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This article argues that we need to look at living examples provided by non-state communities in various regions of the world that are, perhaps unwittingly, contributing to the maintenance of the Earth’s optimal thermal balance. These fully sustainable communities have been living outside the mainstream for centuries, even millennia, providing examples in the global struggle against the degradation of social–ecological systems. They have all, to varying degrees, embraced simple forms of living that make them ‘exemplary ethical communities’ (EECs)—human communities with a track record of sustainability related to forms of traditional knowledge and the capacity to survive outside the capitalist market and nation-state system. The article proceeds in three steps: First, it condenses a large body of research on the limits of the existing nation-state system and its accompanying ideology, nationalism, identifying this institutional–ideological complex as the major obstacle to tackling climate change. Second, alternative social formations that could offer viable micro-level and micro-scale alternatives are suggested. These are unlikely to identify with existing nation-states as they often form distinct types of social communities. Taking examples from hunter-gatherer societies and simple-living religious groups, it is shown how the protection and maintenance of these EECs could become the keystone in the struggle for survival of humankind and other forms of life. Finally, further investigation is called for, into how researchers can come forward with more examples of actually existing communities that might provide pathways to sustainability and resistance to the looming global environmental catastrophe.

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“…Studying the Anthropocene requires a very broad and multi-disciplinary approach, and cross-disciplinary discussion is encouraged (Brondizio et al 2016;Herrmann-Pillath 2018;Lövbrand et al 2015;Luke 2017;Malhi 2017;Strydom 2016;Tschirhart and Bloomfield 2020;Zalasiewicz et al 2021). This is a similar situation compared to communication science if we consider current debates on the topic (Waisbord 2019).…”

Section: Studying (And Living In) Media and The Anthropocenementioning

confidence: 99%

Approaches to the Anthropocene from Communication and Media Studies

Bergillos

2021

Social Sciences

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This paper explores how communication and media studies have engaged with the concept of the Anthropocene in recent years. The purpose of this study is to outline the most relevant theoretical and conceptual contributions from communication science and media studies to issues related to climate change, global sustainability and the Anthropocene. A literature review on the matter shows that the field of communication research is diverse and heterogeneous, and that it puts forward different concepts and theories that deal with media as the environment or the environment as media. Environmental communication and environmental humanities frame approaches to media representations of environmental issues, whereas elemental analysis focuses on the essence of media, its material dimensions and its entanglements with social practices. From the dialogue and interdisciplinary debates among these disciplines, new approaches such as environmental media studies arise. Differences among theories have to do with the definition of media or the consideration of humanity in relation to nature or technology. In sum, communication and media studies offer interdisciplinary approaches and a nuanced understanding of our socio-natural relations, which will become more and more mediated in the years to come.

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The Anthropocene: Comparing Its Meaning in Geology (Chronostratigraphy) with Conceptual Approaches Arising in Other Disciplines

Cited by 95 publications

References 175 publications

Aerosol transmission of human pathogens: From miasmata to modern viral pandemics and their preservation potential in the Anthropocene record

Aerosol transmission of human pathogens: From miasmata to modern viral pandemics and their preservation potential in the Anthropocene record

Exemplary Ethical Communities. A New Concept for a Livable Anthropocene

Approaches to the Anthropocene from Communication and Media Studies

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