The Birds: Anthropocene Warning or Comical Prank? Humanity was not always on Earth, despite the long debate of how humans came to be, humans have caused many changes to the Earth. Over the many years humans have been on Earth there have been many challenges humans have faced and overcome. They have tried to put together Earth’s record of a timeline through history, which is called Geological Time Scale. In this time scale the periods of time have been divided and called epoch(s). Each epoch has a name and the one humans are in is called Anthropocene, but in order to understand more about the current epoch the previous epoch must be known. The Holocene, the previous epoch, was when humanity started to have results of how hunaity effects Earth.
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Hamilton believe as most other scientist that the Anthropocene started in the year 1945, but in truth it started in the 1800s with the steam engine for that is when technology as well as knowledge started to grow in the fossil fuel direction. It is also where the idea of the industrial revolution started to not only form but start to become not long later as it was in the late 1800s that the steam engine was invented. The name Anthropocene itself was not planned as was humans effect on Earth and or its systems. Hamilton said in Defiant Earth that “Paul Crutzen who first blurted it out” the names “Anthropocene” at a conference (28). The name was blurted into existence by the scientist who was reasoning that a new epoch has come to be which had caused great debate if not a stir in not only the scientific community but the historian community as well for the Anthropocene is a collision point where scientific knowledge and historian knowledge not only meet but continue together into the future. The debate was fueled by the fact that Anthro means human caused and some did not want to take responsibility or force others to take responsibility for causing this effect on
Hamilton believe as most other scientist that the Anthropocene started in the year 1945, but in truth it started in the 1800s with the steam engine for that is when technology as well as knowledge started to grow in the fossil fuel direction. It is also where the idea of the industrial revolution started to not only form but start to become not long later as it was in the late 1800s that the steam engine was invented. The name Anthropocene itself was not planned as was humans effect on Earth and or its systems. Hamilton said in Defiant Earth that “Paul Crutzen who first blurted it out” the names “Anthropocene” at a conference (28). The name was blurted into existence by the scientist who was reasoning that a new epoch has come to be which had caused great debate if not a stir in not only the scientific community but the historian community as well for the Anthropocene is a collision point where scientific knowledge and historian knowledge not only meet but continue together into the future. The debate was fueled by the fact that Anthro means human caused and some did not want to take responsibility or force others to take responsibility for causing this effect on