{"id":11554,"date":"2015-08-28T07:41:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T12:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11554"},"modified":"2015-08-28T07:41:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T12:41:46","slug":"the-anthropocene-and-ozymandias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11554","title":{"rendered":"The Anthropocene and Ozymandias"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"block_title entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dark-mountain.net\/blog\/the-anthropocene-and-ozymandias\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Anthropocene and Ozymandias<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dark-mountain.net\/content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/HABITUS-8-med.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2870\" src=\"http:\/\/dark-mountain.net\/content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/HABITUS-8-med.jpg\" alt=\"HABITUS 8 med\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Much has been made lately of the so-called Anthropocene \u2014 the idea that\u00a0<em>Homo sapiens<\/em>\u00a0has so taken over and modified Earth that we need a new name for our geological age instead of the outmoded Holocene. One remorseless Anthropoceniac writes, \u2018Nature is gone\u2026 You are living on a used planet. If this bothers you, get over it. We now live in the Anthropocene \u2014 a geological era in which Earth\u2019s atmosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere are shaped primarily by human forces.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons given today for renaming the Anthropocene is that we have so impacted all ecosystems on Earth that there is no \u2018wilderness\u2019 left. Insofar as I know, other than babbling about \u2018pristine\u2019, \u2018untouched\u2019, and so forth, none of the Anthropoceniacs ever define what they mean by wilderness, which is not surprising in that none of them give a hint of having been in a Wilderness Area or having studied the citizen wilderness preservation movement.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, they behave as though their claim about wilderness being snuffed is a new insight of their own. In truth, we wilderness conservationists have been speaking out about how<em>\u00a0Homo sapiens<\/em>\u00a0has been wrecking wilderness worldwide for one hundred\u00a0years. Bob Marshall, a founder of the Wilderness Society, warned eighty\u00a0years ago that the last wilderness of the Rocky Mountains was \u2018disappearing like a snowbank on a south-facing slope on a warm June day.\u2019 Congress said in the 1964 Wilderness Act that the country had to act then due to \u2018increasing population, accompanied by expanding settlement and growing mechanization\u2019 or we would leave no lands in a natural condition for future generations. My book\u00a0<em>Rewilding North America<\/em>\u00a0documents in gut-wrenching detail how Man has been wreaking a mass extinction for the last 50,000 years or so.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anthropocene and Ozymandias Much has been made lately of the so-called Anthropocene \u2014 the idea that\u00a0Homo sapiens\u00a0has so taken over and modified Earth that we need a new name for our geological age instead of the outmoded Holocene. One remorseless Anthropoceniac writes, \u2018Nature is gone\u2026 You are living on a used planet. 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