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There is a great deal of historical evidence to\nsuggest that a society which loses its identity with posterity and which loses\nits positive image of the future also loses its capacity to deal with present\nproblems, and soon falls apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Kenneth E. Boulding
The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Homo sapiens<\/em>, the first truly free species,\nis about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us.  Soon we must look deep within ourselves and\ndecide what we wish to become.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edward O. Wilson
Consilience, The Unity of Knowledge<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a pity we\u2019re still\nofficially living in an age called the Holocene.  The Anthropocene \u2013 human dominance of\nbiological, chemical and geological processes on Earth \u2013 is already an\nundeniable reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul J. Crutzen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We might therefore say that engaging with the technosphere leads one into the dirty work inside the \u201cmachine room\u201d of the Anthropocene, amidst the non-linear mechanics of global change, where things are nested and wired more haphazardly than one might believe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rosol et al. 2017<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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