Anthropolithic Chapter 10

Chapter 1: Almost 70 million years ago, the most recent of apocalyptic extinction events occurred, wiping out the dinosaurs and signaling the start of a new era. The Cenozoic Era (age of mammals) has been split into seven sections called epochs with the final epoch being called the Holocene epoch, which brought forth a new ecosystem that harbored humanity. To conclude the eras that occurred previously, there have been five apocalyptic extinction events that occur roughly every 100 million year, and considering that humanity is 70 million years into the Cenozoic Era, humanity’s corrosion of Earth is considered to be the sixth Extinction event. Some scientists seek to distinguish the rise of man as a separate epoch known as the Anthropocene, or Epoch of Man, due to humanities obvious impact on the planet and ecosystems.
Chapter 10: Due to a lack of knowledge, or incorrect knowledge on conservation organizations, the general public has formed twisted views on conservation that do not accurately represent the goals and views of traditional conservation organizations. Contrary to popular belief, organizations were concerned not only about the …show more content…
The only successful way to study ecology, like all sciences, is to start from the bottom and follow tedious pathways to a solution, but successfully studying ecology is impossible at our current level of knowledge due to a lack of information and understanding of everything that is present in any given ecosystem considering humanity only knows roughly 1/3 of the species on the planet, with even less being researched. Anthropocene supporters suggest understanding of the complexity behind ecology, but do they understand that destroying one species can destroy all traces of interactions that anything in the ecosystem had with