The field’s governing body ratified a vote by scientists on the contentious issue, ending a long effort to update the timeline of Earth’s history.
  • survivalmachine@beehaw.org
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    4 months ago

    We measure geological epochs in millions of years. We just barely started the Holocene 12k years ago. While speaking about human impact makes sense in shorter timescale fields like sociology, I’m not sure we need to start a new geological timescale. Humanity is just a brief blip in the holocene that may not even survive to another epoch if whatever intelligence that follows us continues to use the same systems we developed.

    • KISSmyOS@feddit.de
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      4 months ago

      Yes, in the same way that all biologists are owned by Monsanto and all computer scientists are owned by Microsoft.