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This week’s Feedback Friday topic is:
Dawn of the Age of Catastrophe?
Wildfires in Canada continue to rage, Vermont is experiencing unprecedented flooding (yes, Vermont!), and the world is setting record high temperatures right now, everywhere. The world is literally on fire, flooding, and going through incredible climate change. And it’s possibly due to…us.
This week, another very important—and under the radar—scenario has developed. Scientists have decisively concluded they’ve pinpointed what they call the “golden spike”—a spot in the geologic record that perfectly preserved the dangerous transformation of Earth caused by humans. The golden-spike is Crawford Lake in Canada, of which the fine sediments beneath its surfaced have perfectly captured a thousand-year record of environmental history, culminating in an explosion of man-made disruption around the middle of the 20th century.
These scientists are calling the year 1950 as the start of the Anthropocene in Earth’s geologic history. Their findings will still undergo much more scrutiny and analysis before this new era is added to the planet’s timeline.
And all of this begs the question(s)…
What do you think about the global climate with regard to environmental disasters and the role humanity has played in the increase of catastrophic incidents?
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