Why Do We Outlast The Anthropocene

The world is in a constant state of change, today’s decisions will affect the future of all species large and small, defining the ways in which society will continue to live. The essay “No New Worlds” written by Dr. Adrian Forsyth explores ideas associated with ever changing populations and states of the world. The essay describes the existence of humankind by their impacts on the surrounding environments. The reader is then introduced to the implications our world faces if these problems are not solved and additionally steps to solving these issues. Thus, both men and women need to take action to help or pay the consequences and protect the only world we have, planet Earth.

Once Nash describes his idea, he goes on to display possible scenarios of how human existence can change within the next millennium. He proposes four possible scenarios. The first scenario that Nash brings up, the “wasteland scenario”, depicts Earth as a poisoned environment that will no longer support

Climate change is a issue that widely talked today. As the National Weather Service reports, the hottest temperature records are extending all over the United States since year 2010 (Schlesinger, William H, 2014). It is obvious that our world is heating. Global warming become more and more seriously. With the increase of temperature, many environment problems occur to have huge impact on our urban life, including: the sea level rise, air pollution and drought. These environment problems also endanger our area in a large part.

In the first chapter, the author talks about how most people’s attention is on eye-catching images, instead of what is going on in the world. People care more about murders, airplane crashes, etc. instead of the exploding populations or the growth in the amount of nuclear weapons that exist. Because of this, our environment starts to deteriorate. The environment will continue to deteriorate, and such events will be out of control until the human race realizes just how selectively the environment persuades the human mind, and how the biological and cultural history determines our comprehension. The book is about fundamental connections to our past and how the human race can

The world as we know it is going to come to an end and will become what most would consider an apocalyptic war zone with chaos and downfall, Roy Scranton believes this will happen in Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene. Roy Scranton was a soldier in the Iraq war, he was stationed in Baghdad right after the invasion where he witnessed many terrifying and life changing events. After he was done serving for the military he went on to become a writer, he mostly wrote about the war and the experiences he had during it. After he witnessed the destruction of hurricane Katrina he wrote about the threat of global climate change by writing Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene. Scranton believes that if we learn to live like we are dead, then we

“A Letter from the Future” by Richard Heinberg describes to readers of a not too distant future (2101) an Earth in which its resources have been squandered and is facing an irreversible environmental meltdown caused by human’s greediness and mismanagement. Heinberg writes from the future to try and educate past civilization on what is happening in the future and how if their actions don’t change in how they treat their natural resources their future will irrefutably be destroyed for all mankind. Heinberg wrote this letter in order to explain just how dangerously high our current use of resources are and how it will impact the future.

James Howard Kunstler is an environmental author residing in the state of New York. He contributed a piece to The Guardian Weekly, in 2005, entitled, “Globalization’s Time Is Up”, which acknowledges that our social infrastructure hangs by a thread, and that thread is cheap energy and global peace. Globalization, Kunstler notes, and its irresponsible consumption of linear resources, will drive humanity to war, in the race for the worlds remaining oil. His argument is a strong but there is an enthymeme left unaddressed. Business ethics, linearity and planned obsolescence are problematic attitudes within the essay’s arguments but Kunstler never emphasizes on them beyond colorful words and finger pointing “cheerleaders”. The author also fails to supply solutions to the issues he raises, which leaves readers numb and helpless. Nonetheless, he touches base on things that most of us refuse to admit in order to keep our comfort zone intact. It is neglected facts like these that have led us into an age of ignorance and that is strange considering we live in a time where information is more accessible than ever before, thanks to the internet.

In the scientific community, climate change is practically undeniable and its universal importance not trivial. However, in respects to a new concept called the Anthropocene, debate has waged over the struggle of its classification. In the article The “Anthropocene” epoch: Scientific decision or political statement?, California State University geological sciences professor Stanley Finney and U.S. Geological Survey geologist Lucy Edwards unmask the current representation of the Anthropocene and explain its implications of being recognized as a geological unit to the ICC. Finney and Edwards examine the basis of the Anthropocene’s validity and lead the reader towards potential political and social motives for proceeding in admitting the Anthropocene

In a chilling recollection of mankind’s current misdeeds towards the environment in “The End of Nature,” McKibben’s call for action is one paramount to the survival of the human race. In essence, McKibben argues that the futures of both nature and ourselves are delicately yet undeniably interconnected. Furthermore, he urges that “we” (ALL humans) are the deciding chip in said bond. By doing so, McKibben implies that action must be situated if we are to expect any change in such bleak a situation. This argument can clearly be found when McKibben speaks out on a myriad of environmental issues in the past, present, and future. McKibben begins to accustom readers to a pattern in which human ignorance juts out from past environmental experiences.

Humanity is confronted by multiple environmental challenges which threaten to undermine the advances in health achieved over recent decades. The Rockefeller Foundation/Lancet Commission on Planetary Health showed how climate change, loss of biodiversity, land use change, ocean acidification and overfishing, nitrogen and phosphorus loading and environmental pollution more generally all have the potential to adversely affect health through a range of pathways1. A recent joint publication by WHO and Convention on Biological Diversity articulated the myriad connections between biodiversity and health and the threats to both posed by environmental change2. The dramatic changes in the global environment have led many scientists to conclude that we are living in a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene – in which the activities of one species – homo sapiens -have become the dominant driving force transforming the Earth’s natural systems3. These natural systems provide food, clean water and air and modulate the global temperature within limits in which humanity has been able to flourish for around 11,500 years during the preceding Holocene epoch.

Climate change in America is getting worse everyday and can destroy many of living organisms including humans; therefore, humans need to cut our greenhouse gas emissions fast or, oceans will be dramatically changed, the ice will melt causing floods, and the changing in weather causing severe damage. These are major issues that need to be resolved if we are planning on making a bright future on earth.

My view of the key challenges that my generation faces are: climate change, food security and health care. The rising temperatures and changing patterns of rain are forcing plants around the world to move toward polar regions and up mountain slopes. The animals that depend on them will be forced to move, and human development and other obstacles may block the migration of both. Global warming causes droughts to become more severe, with potentially devastating consequences for agriculture, water supply and human health. Extreme heat waves caused many deaths all around the world. Diseases and pests that were once limited to the tropics, may find hospitable conditions in new areas that were once too cold for them. Moving on to food security, which

Climate change is one of our largest problems, which we will have to face eventually. Similarly, there are many things that exist today that may not tomorrow. Learning to adapt is vital to continue living a sustainable life.

Climate change is a booming topic that has been recurring for decades. It has left scientists baffled because of its inconsistent changes. This may include warming temperatures or melting glaciers. Though many different effects of climate change appear the same, some are worse than others. The history of climate change is drastically different compared to the present condition of it. Some places in the world have regions which have changed recently. Furthermore, many other effects of climate change are arise, but ways to avoid a changing climate are also important, as well as ways to navigate a changing climate. Different types of climates have different impacts that can be avoided. Reducing the effects of climate change can be as simple as growing a tree. Also, navigating a changing climate. Mitigation and adaptation are tremendous ways to navigate a climate. They can make sure that everyone lives safely and responsibly. Ultimately, different types of climates have different effects. Warm climates will have effects on countries that need warmth and countries that need cold to live healthily. The opposite follows for cold climates. In turn, many effects of climate change can be different on any day.

The destruction of the Earth’s environment is known by almost every human alive. Our planet is time and again being attacked by the dominant human race. People treat the earth as if it does not have a role in our survival as a species. This assault on the environment has been going on for centuries and has brought about consequences that many of us cannot even fathom. If the world is anything like the environment depicted in the novel He, She, and It, the world we know today will be seen as a haven. The environment in the novel as horrible as it may be, is not far from reality. Deterioration of the earth’s environment, population growth, depletion of our resources and world poverty are all issues that point to the future shown in He, She and It. The possibility that we could annihilate ourselves has never been more real. However, our species is one of the most adaptable creatures on Earth, and with our developing technology we might just be able to salvage the world we have left.