Author and Teacher Oliver Gough is a PhD candidate and playwright researching climate change theatre at the University of Queensland, where he also teaches.
Category: Anthropocene
Anthropocene: The Cockroach of the Geologic Time Scale?
Guest “Roaches check in — but they don’t check out!” by David Middleton Who could ever forget this classic 1980 TV commercial, featuring “the Greatest” Muhammad Ali? As Kip Hansen…
Update: Yes, We Have No Anthropocene!
“… it was unclear Tuesday morning [March 5th] whether the results stood as a conclusive rejection or whether they might still be challenged or appealed. In an email to The…
The Anthropocene? Not or Maybe Not
“A committee of roughly two dozen scholars has, by a large majority, voted down a proposal to declare the start of the Anthropocene, a newly created epoch of geologic time,…
The Last Gasp of the Anthropocene?
The Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) was established in 2009 to see if there was a way to geologically differentiate an Anthropocene Epoch from the Holocene Epoch. The notion has always…
The “Anthropolitan” Compromise?
Guest “Stick a fork in it” by David Middleton This should “stick a fork” in the notion of an Anthropocene Epoch… Gill co-authors report arguing Anthropocene should be a geological…
Consensus Science: Anthropocene Edition
Guest “This would actually be science by voting” by David Middleton In my most recent post addressing the Anthropocene, one commentator became obsessed with the fact that in order for…
Anthropocene: human-made materials now weigh as much as all living biomass, say scientists
Now a new study in Nature by a team of scientists from the Weizman Institute in Israel upends that perspective. Our constructions have now – indeed, spookily, just this year…
The Shortest Book Ever Written
Guest “the Anthropocene doesn’t exist” by David Middleton Hat tip to Joel O’Bryan… The full text is available on ResearchGate… I didn’t bother to read it because the Anthropocene is…
A Science Journalist Nails the Anthropocene
Guest “attaboy” by David Middleton A small ray of sunshine in the dismal swamp of science journalism from, of all places, The Atlantic… The Anthropocene Is a JokeOn geological timescales,…
Anthropocene: “it will be the rocks that have the final say” about this fake word.
Guest geology by David Middleton The fake geologic epoch known as the “Anthropocene” just won’t die… It’s like a zombie from a bad science fiction movie. NEWS FEATURE 06 AUGUST 2019…
UPenn: The word “Anthropocene” is a Dangerous Generalisation which Ignores White Male Colonial Capitalist Guilt for Global Warming
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to University of Pennsylvania climate communicator Hanna Morris, use of the word “Anthropocene” facilitates disregard for the disproportionate suffering of indigenous peoples, and encourages…
Fake Science: “The Anthropocene Is Coming to Mars”… From Where?
Guest ridiculing of a professor by David Middleton The Anthropocene Is Coming to Mars Humans are about to extend their influence to a second world. By Dirk Schulze-Makuch airspacemag.com January…
New Holocene geological subdivisions. The Anthropocene nowhere to be found.
by Javier The collapse of ancient civilizations defines the latest period. The International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) has announced that the proposal by the International Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (ISQS)…
"Welcome to the Fabulous Anthropocene!"
Guest commentary by David Middleton Just to demonstrate that the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) maintains an open mind about things, I thought I would share an recent AAPG…
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