Oxytropidoceras Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 (edited) All That Plastic In The Ocean Is Going To Leave Behind Fossils. Welcome to the Anthropocene Epoch! Alexander C. Kaufman, The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/anthropocene-epoch-plastics_us_57c446cde4b041934210097f The Anthropocene epoch: scientists declare dawn of human-influenced age. Admian Carrington, The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/29/declare-anthropocene-epoch-experts-urge-geological-congress-human-impact-earth Plastic now pollutes every corner of Earth. From supermarket bags to CDs, man-made waste has contaminated the entire globe, and become a marker of a new geological epoch. Robin McKie, The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/24/plastic-new-epoch-human-damage Waters, C. N., J. Zalasiewicz, C. Summerhayes, and many others, 2016, The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene. Science. vol. 351, no. 6269, DOI: 10.1126/science.aad2622 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6269/aad2622 Earth Systems in the Anthropocene http://www.35igc.org/SymposiumDetail/69/Earth-Systems-in-the-Anthropocene?theme=Surficial Processes and Landscape Evolution&themeId=32 Geological Maps of South Africa http://www.geoscience.org.za/index.php/publication/306-geological-maps Yours, Paul H. Edited August 30, 2016 by Oxytropidoceras Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 It's a pity there is such a thing as the Anthropocene..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raggedy Man Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 56 minutes ago, doushantuo said: It's a pity there is such a thing as the Anthropocene..... Agreed. ...I'm back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBrewer Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 That's very sad. At at the end of the Huffington Post link there's a video about how the 5p disposable plastic bag tax has apparently reduced the number of supermarket plastic bags bought. While this is an accurate observation it's not the full picture. Supermarkets here also sell 'bags for life' that is much stronger plastic bags at 10p (not a tax!) that when fail you can return one and swap if for a new 'bag for life'. On the BBC Radio 4 statistics programme More or Less it was discovered that the number of these bags are increasingly bought and statistics are showing these are not all being recycled. It's an interesting article but I think BBC programmes aren't available outside of the U.K. You might be able to listen via a proxy server tho if you're interested 1 John Map of UK fossil sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 I didn't read the links, yet. However, I would place little confidence in the comprehensive accuracy of any report that cannot distinguish between archeological artifacts and fossils.... When facts are mixed with a lack of precision...well, that's sad. I'm glad to be alive and happy other people are living too. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashcraft Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 15 hours ago, JohnJ said: I'm glad to be alive and happy other people are living too. +1, most people anyway Brent Ashcraft ashcraft, brent allen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anchiornis Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 (edited) Oh no. OH NO. Edited August 31, 2016 by Anchiornis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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