Talk:Anthropocene

I think the etymology offered for Homogenocene must be wrong. There is no way that "homo" Latin for man would be used in this way. "Homo" appears in compounds as "homini-," not "homo," which form is only used as an independent word ("Homo sapiens"). Homogenocene probably is constructed from the word "homogeneous" + "cene"; the article in which the term first occurred was referring to the homogenization of life across the planet because of transfers of organisms by humans. Homogeneous comes from "homo" "same" and "gen" "kind" in Greek.

Metrodorus (talk)

I've removed the further reading list, as I don't think such a long list is adding any value here. If any of the publications are very important, they should be used for inline citations.

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• Bonneuil, Christophe; Fressoz, Jean-Baptiste.(2016) [https://www.versobooks.com/books/2388-the-shock-of-the-anthropocene The Shock of the Anthropocene. The Earth, History and Us], Verso Books. Translated by David Fernbach. Originally published as L’événement Anthropocène: La terre, l’histoire et nous. Le Seuil 2013
• {{Cite Q|Q114630752|mode=cs1 |author-last=Davies |author-first=Jeremy |edition=1st, hardcover }}
• {{Cite journal|last1=Dixon|first1=Simon J|last2=Viles|first2=Heather A|last3=Garrett|first3=Bradley L|title=Ozymandias in the Anthropocene: the city as an emerging landform|journal=Area|volume=50|pages=117–125|doi=10.1111/area.12358|issn=1475-4762|year=2018|doi-access=free}}
• {{cite journal | vauthors = Duarte CM, Chapuis L, Collin SP, Costa DP, Devassy RP, Eguiluz VM, Erbe C, Gordon TA, Halpern BS, Harding HR, Havlik MN, Meekan M, Merchant ND, Miksis-Olds JL, Parsons M, Predragovic M, Radford AN, Radford CA, Simpson SD, Slabbekoorn H, Staaterman E, Van Opzeeland IC, Winderen J, Zhang X, Juanes F | display-authors = 6 | title = The soundscape of the Anthropocene ocean | journal = Science | volume = 371 | issue = 6529 | pages = eaba4658 | date = February 2021 | pmid = 33542110 | doi = 10.1126/science.aba4658 | url = https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/53691/1/DuarteEtAl_2021full.pdf | access-date = 2021-05-25 | url-status = live | s2cid = 231808113 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210510095454/https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/53691/1/DuarteEtAl_2021full.pdf | archive-date = 2021-05-10 }}
• {{cite journal |author-last=Edgeworth |author-first=Matt |date=October 2021 |title=Transgressing Time: Archaeological Evidence in/of the Anthropocene |editor1-last=Brenneis |editor1-first=Don |editor1-link=Don Brenneis |editor2-last=Strier |editor2-first=Karen B. |editor2-link=Karen B. Strier |journal=Annual Review of Anthropology |publisher=Annual Reviews |volume=50 |pages=93–108 |doi=10.1146/annurev-anthro-101819-110118 |issn=1545-4290 |s2cid=236363574}}
• {{cite book|last1=Ellis|first1=Erle|title=Anthropocene: A Very Short Introduction|volume=1|date=2018|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780198792987|doi=10.1093/actrade/9780198792987.001.0001}}
• {{cite journal|last=Ellis|first=Erle C.|author2=Fuller, Dorian Q.|author3=Kaplan, Jed O.|author4=Lutters, Wayne G.|title=Dating the Anthropocene: Towards an empirical global history of human transformation of the terrestrial biosphere|journal=Elementa|year=2013|doi=10.12952/journal.elementa.000018|volume=1|page=000018|doi-access=free}}
• Emmett, Robert, Thomas Lekan, eds. "[http://www.environmentandsociety.org/perspectives/2016/2/whose-anthropocene-revisiting-dipesh-chakrabartys-four-theses Whose Anthropocene? Revisiting Dipesh Chakrabarty's ‘Four Theses,’]" [http://www.environmentandsociety.org/perspectives RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society] 2016, no. 2. doi.org/10.5282/rcc/7421.
• {{Cite journal |title=Welcome to Terra Sapiens |journal=Aeon |date=December 2016 |url=https://aeon.co/essays/enter-the-sapiezoic-a-new-aeon-of-self-aware-global-change|author=Grinspoon, David|author-link=David Grinspoon }}
• {{cite book |last=Hamilton|first=Clive |date=2017 |title=Defiant Earth: The Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene|publisher=Polity|isbn=978-1509519750|author-link=Clive Hamilton}}
• {{cite web|last1=Ialenti|first1=Vincent. 2016.|title=Generation (Lexicon for An Anthropocene Yet Unseen)|url=http://www.culanth.org/fieldsights/846-generation|website=Cultural Anthropology: Theorising the Contemporary|access-date=13 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507230837/http://www.culanth.org/fieldsights/846-generation|archive-date=7 May 2016|url-status=dead}}
• Kim, Rakhyun E. (2021). "Taming Gaia 2.0: Earth System Law in the Ruptured Anthropocene". The Anthropocene Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/20530196211026721
• {{cite journal|last=Kim|first=Rakhyun E.|author2=Klaus Bosselmann|title=International Environmental Law in the Anthropocene: Towards a Purposive System of Multilateral Environmental Agreements|journal=Transnational Environmental Law|year=2013|doi=10.1017/S2047102513000149|volume=2|issue=2|pages=285–309|s2cid=146464921}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Kress|first1= W. John |last2=Krupnick |first2=Gary A. |date=2022 |title=Lords of the biosphere: Plant winners and losers in the Anthropocene |journal=Plants, People, Planet |volume=4|issue= 4|pages=350–366|doi=10.1002/ppp3.10252 |s2cid= 247388985 |doi-access=free }}
• {{cite book |last=MacCormack|first=Patricia |date=2020 |title=The Ahuman Manifesto: Activism for the End of the Anthropocene|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic|isbn=978-1350081093|author-link=Patricia MacCormack}}
• {{cite book |editor1-last=McArthur |editor1-first=Jo-Anne |editor1-link=Jo-Anne McArthur |editor2-last=Wilson |editor2-first=Keith |date=2020 |title=Hidden: Animals in the Anthropocene |location= |publisher=Lantern Publishing & Media|isbn=978-1590566381}}
• Purdy, Jedediah. (2015). "Anthropocene Fever". Aeon. pp. 1–9.
• {{Cite journal |author=Ruddiman, William F. |title=The anthropogenic greenhouse era began thousands of years ago |journal=Climatic Change |volume=61 |issue=3 |pages=261–293 |date=December 2003 |doi=10.1023/B:CLIM.0000004577.17928.fa |citeseerx=10.1.1.651.2119 |s2cid=2501894 }}
• {{Cite journal|author=Ruddiman, William F. |author2=Stephen J. Vavrus |author3=John E. Kutzbach |name-list-style=amp|title=A test of the overdue-glaciation hypothesis |journal=Quaternary Science Reviews |volume=24 |issue=1 |page=11 |year=2005 |url=http://www.pik-potsdam.de/~claussen/papers/ruddiman+al_qsr_05.pdf |doi=10.1016/j.quascirev.2004.07.010 |bibcode=2005QSRv...24....1R |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061003050034/http://www.pik-potsdam.de/~claussen/papers/ruddiman%2Bal_qsr_05.pdf |archive-date=3 October 2006 }}
• {{Cite book |author=Ruddiman, William F. |title=Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton, N.J |date=2005 |isbn=978-0-691-12164-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/plowsplaguespetr00will }}
• {{Cite journal |author=Schmidt, G. A. |author2=D. T. Shindel |author3=S. Harder |name-list-style=amp|title=A note on the relationship between ice core methane concentrations and insolation |journal=Geophysical Research Letters |volume=31 |issue=23 |pages=L23206 |year=2004 |doi=10.1029/2004GL021083 |bibcode=2004GeoRL..3123206S|s2cid=129005632 }}
• {{cite journal | last1 = Schneider-Mayerson | first1 = Matthew | year = 2017 | title = Some Islands Will Rise: Singapore in the Anthropocene | url = https://www.academia.edu/34555750 | journal = Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities | volume = 4 | issue = 2| pages = 166–184 | doi = 10.5250/resilience.4.2-3.0166 | s2cid = 158809548 }}
• {{cite book |author-last=Sigurðsson |author-first=Geir |year=2016 |chapter=Anthropocosmic Processes in the Anthropocene: Revisiting Quantum Mechanics vs. Chinese Cosmology Comparison |editor1-last=Bala |editor1-first=Arun |editor2-last=Duara |editor2-first=Prasenjit |title=The Bright Dark Ages: Comparative and Connective Perspectives |location=Leiden and Boston |publisher=Brill Publishers |series=Knowledge Infrastructure and Knowledge Economy |volume=5 |pages=76–92 |doi=10.1163/9789004264199_006 |isbn=978-90-04-26419-9 |issn=1877-2323}}
• {{cite journal|last1=Steffen|first1=Will|last2=Crutzen|first2=Paul|last3=McNeill|first3=John|year=2007|title=The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now Overwhelming the Great Forces of Nature?|journal=Ambio: A Journal of the Human Environment|volume=36|issue=8|pages=614–621|doi=10.1579/0044-7447(2007)36[614:taahno]2.0.co;2|pmid=18240674|hdl=1885/29029|s2cid=16218015 |hdl-access=free}}
• {{cite journal |author=Steffen, Will|display-authors=et al|date=9 August 2018 |title=Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene|journal=PNAS |volume= 115|issue= 33|pages= 8252–8259|doi=10.1073/pnas.1810141115|pmid=30082409|pmc=6099852|hdl=2078.1/204292|bibcode=2018PNAS..115.8252S|doi-access=free}}
• Thomas, Julia Adeney, Jan Zalasiewicz, "[http://www.environmentandsociety.org/perspectives/2020/3/strata-and-three-stories Strata and Three Stories]." [http://www.environmentandsociety.org/perspectives RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society] 2020, no. 3. doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9205.
• Trischler, Helmuth, ed. "[http://www.environmentandsociety.org/perspectives/2013/3/anthropocene-exploring-future-age-humans Anthropocene: Exploring the Future of the Age of Humans]," [http://www.environmentandsociety.org/perspectives RCC Perspectives] 2013, no 3. doi.org/10.5282/rcc/5603.
• {{Cite journal |author=Visconti, Guido |title=Anthropocene: another academic invention? |journal=Rend. Fis. Acc. Lincei |volume=25 |issue=3 |pages=381–392 |year=2014 |doi=10.1007/s12210-014-0317-x |s2cid=128678966 |url=https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs12210-014-0317-x.pdf }}
• {{Cite journal |title=Human-Driven Planet: Time to Make It Official? |journal=Science Now |date=January 2008 |url=https://www.science.org/content/article/human-driven-planet-time-make-it-official}}
• Klinkenborg, Verlyn (December 2016). [https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/12/22/whats-happening-to-the-bees-and-butterflies/ What's Happening to the Bees and Butterflies?] New York Review of Books
• [http://www.cnn.com/specials/world/vanishing-earths-mass-extinction Vanishing: The Sixth Mass Extinction], and [http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/12/world/sutter-vanishing-help/ How to stop the sixth mass extinction] (December 2016), CNN.
• {{cite journal|first1=Mark|last1=Williams|first2=Jan|last2=Zalasiewicz|first3=P. K.|last3=Haff|first4=Christian|last4=Schwägerl|first5=Anthony D.|last5=Barnosky|first6=Erle C.|last6=Ellis|s2cid=7771527|year=2015|title=The Anthropocene Biosphere|journal=The Anthropocene Review|volume=2|issue=3|pages=196–219|doi=10.1177/2053019615591020}}
• [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/area.12358/abstract 'Ozymandias in the Anthropocene: the city as an emerging landform'], Dixon S., et al. (2017) AREA, Royal Geographical Society {{ISSN|1475-4762}}

{{div col end}} EMsmile (talk) 08:45, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

: There are already (as of this writing) 178 reference footnotes, which IMHO is a lot. I notice that the above list is almost alphabetized by author's name (but Ozymandias in the Anthropocene by Dixon et al. is mentioned both at its alphabetical position and at the very end, and Klinkenborg is after Visconti). Maybe this list could be added as a "Bibliography" section, and in a common format with the author name(s) (if any) always in front. I would have suggested a scrolling list (see :Help:Scrolling list) with a not too gigantic height (maybe 25 to 30 em), however MOS:SCROLL is against scrolling and collapsible lists in article space — though with a few exceptions: Collapsed or auto-collapsing cells or sections may be used with tables if they simply repeat information covered in the main text (or are purely supplementary, e.g…). Auto-collapsing is often a feature of navboxes. Maybe this list is "purely supplementary information" in which case it might fall into one of the exceptions. — Tonymec (talk) 03:49, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

:: What would be an advantage of a bibliography list? If any of those references are important they should be used as in-line citations. I think "further reading" lists might have been important in the days before Google but nowadays anyone can easily find more information themselves if they want. Hence we are better off keeping things short and succinct and not bombarding readers with longs lists (which would then have to be curated and updated...). EMsmile (talk) 08:45, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

I've taken out this long paragraph that goes into too much detail. We have a sub-article for this on biodiversity loss. I guess the content could be moved to there if it's not already in there. I think we are better off with using an excerpt from biodiversity loss. Pinging User:C.J. Griffin and User:ASRASR for their information and comment.

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In a pair of studies published in 2015, extrapolation from observed extinction of Hawaiian snails of the family Amastridae, led to the conclusion that "the biodiversity crisis is real", and that 7% of all species on Earth may have disappeared already.{{cite news |date=10 August 2015 |title=Research shows catastrophic invertebrate extinction in Hawai'i and globally |publisher=Phys.org |url=http://phys.org/news/2015-08-catastrophic-invertebrate-extinction-hawaii-globally.html |access-date=29 November 2015}}{{cite journal |last1=Régnier |first1=Claire |last2=Achaz |first2=Guillaume |last3=Lambert |first3=Amaury |last4=Cowie |first4=Robert H. |last5=Bouchet |first5=Philippe |last6=Fontaine |first6=Benoît |name-list-style=amp |date=5 May 2015 |title=Mass extinction in poorly known taxa |journal=PNAS |volume=112 |issue=25 |pages=7761–7766 |bibcode=2015PNAS..112.7761R |doi=10.1073/pnas.1502350112 |pmc=4485135 |pmid=26056308 |doi-access=free}} Human predation was noted as being unique in the history of life on Earth as being a globally distributed 'superpredator', with predation of the adults of other apex predators and with widespread impact on food webs worldwide.{{Cite journal |last1=Darimont |first1=Chris T. |last2=Fox |first2=Caroline H. |last3=Bryan |first3=Heather M. |last4=Reimchen |first4=Thomas E. |date=21 August 2015 |title=The unique ecology of human predators |journal=Science |volume=349 |issue=6250 |pages=858–860 |bibcode=2015Sci...349..858D |doi=10.1126/science.aac4249 |issn=0036-8075 |pmid=26293961 |s2cid=4985359}} A study published in May 2017 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences noted that a "biological annihilation" akin to a sixth mass extinction event is underway as a result of anthropogenic causes. The study suggested that as much as 50% of animal individuals that once lived on Earth are already extinct.{{cite journal |last1=Ceballos |first1=Gerardo |last2=Ehrlich |first2=Paul R |last3=Dirzo |first3=Rodolfo |date=23 May 2017 |title=Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines |journal=PNAS |volume=114 |issue=30 |pages=E6089–E6096 |bibcode=2017PNAS..114E6089C |doi=10.1073/pnas.1704949114 |pmc=5544311 |pmid=28696295 |quote=Much less frequently mentioned are, however, the ultimate drivers of those immediate causes of biotic destruction, namely, human overpopulation and continued population growth, and overconsumption, especially by the rich. These drivers, all of which trace to the fiction that perpetual growth can occur on a finite planet, are themselves increasing rapidly. |doi-access=free}}{{cite news |last=Sutter |first=John D. |date=11 July 2017 |title=Sixth mass extinction: The era of 'biological annihilation' |publisher=CNN |url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/11/world/sutter-mass-extinction-ceballos-study/index.html |access-date=14 July 2017}} A different study published in PNAS in May 2018 says that since the dawn of human civilization, 83% of wild mammals have disappeared. Today, livestock makes up 60% of the biomass of all mammals on earth, followed by humans (36%) and wild mammals (4%).{{cite news |last=Carrington |first=Damian |date=21 May 2018 |title=Humans just 0.01% of all life but have destroyed 83% of wild mammals – study |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/21/human-race-just-001-of-all-life-but-has-destroyed-over-80-of-wild-mammals-study |access-date=23 May 2018}}{{cite journal |last1=Baillie |first1=Jonathan |last2=Ya-Ping |first2=Zhang |date=14 September 2018 |title=Space for nature |journal=Science |volume=361 |issue=6407 |pages=1051 |bibcode=2018Sci...361.1051B |doi=10.1126/science.aau1397 |pmid=30213888 |doi-access=free}} According to the 2019 Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services by IPBES, 25% of plant and animal species are threatened with extinction.{{cite news |last=Watts |first=Jonathan |date=6 May 2019 |title=Human society under urgent threat from loss of Earth's natural life |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/06/human-society-under-urgent-threat-loss-earth-natural-life-un-report |access-date=10 May 2019}}{{cite news |last=Plumer |first=Brad |date=6 May 2019 |title=Humans are speeding extinction and altering the natural world at an 'unprecedented' pace |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/climate/biodiversity-extinction-united-nations.html |access-date=10 May 2019}}{{cite web |date=6 May 2019 |title=Nature's dangerous decline 'unprecedented'; Species extinction rates 'accelerating' |url=https://www.ipbes.net/news/Media-Release-Global-Assessment |access-date=10 May 2019 |publisher=Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services |department=Media Release}} According to the World Wildlife Fund's 2020 Living Planet Report, 68% of wildlife populations have declined between 1970 and 2016 as a result of overconsumption, population growth and intensive farming, and the report asserts that "the findings are clear. Our relationship with nature is broken."{{cite news |last=Greenfield |first=Patrick |date=9 September 2020 |title=Humans exploiting and destroying nature on unprecedented scale – report |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/10/humans-exploiting-and-destroying-nature-on-unprecedented-scale-report-aoe |access-date=10 September 2020}}{{cite news |last=Rott |first=Nathan |date=10 September 2020 |title=The World Lost Two-Thirds Of Its Wildlife In 50 Years. We Are to Blame |work=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/2020/09/10/911500907/the-world-lost-two-thirds-of-its-wildlife-in-50-years-we-are-to-blame |access-date=11 September 2020}} However, a 2020 study, by Leung et al. including Maria Dornelas, disputed the findings of the Living Planet Report, finding that the 68% decline number was being influenced down by a very small amount extreme outliers and when these were not included, the decline was less steep, or even stable if other outliers were not included.{{Cite journal |last1=Leung |first1=Brian |last2=Hargreaves |first2=Anna L. |last3=Greenberg |first3=Dan A. |last4=McGill |first4=Brian |last5=Dornelas |first5=Maria |last6=Freeman |first6=Robin |date=December 2020 |title=Clustered versus catastrophic global vertebrate declines |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2920-6 |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=588 |issue=7837 |pages=267–271 |bibcode=2020Natur.588..267L |doi=10.1038/s41586-020-2920-6 |issn=1476-4687 |pmid=33208939 |s2cid=227065128 |hdl-access=free |hdl=10023/23213}} A 2021 paper published in Frontiers in Conservation Science, which cites both of the aforementioned studies, says "population sizes of vertebrate species that have been monitored across years have declined by an average of 68% over the last five decades, with certain population clusters in extreme decline, thus presaging the imminent extinction of their species."{{cite journal |last1=Bradshaw |first1=Corey J. A. |last2=Ehrlich |first2=Paul R. |last3=Beattie |first3=Andrew |last4=Ceballos |first4=Gerardo |last5=Crist |first5=Eileen |last6=Diamond |first6=Joan |last7=Dirzo |first7=Rodolfo |last8=Ehrlich |first8=Anne H. |last9=Harte |first9=John |last10=Harte |first10=Mary Ellen |last11=Pyke |first11=Graham |last12=Raven |first12=Peter H. |last13=Ripple |first13=William J. |last14=Saltré |first14=Frédérik |last15=Turnbull |first15=Christine |date=2021 |title=Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future |journal=Frontiers in Conservation Science |volume=1 |issue= |pages= |doi=10.3389/fcosc.2020.615419 |doi-access=free |last16=Wackernagel |first16=Mathis |last17=Blumstein |first17=Daniel T.}} EMsmile (talk) 09:53, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

{{reflist-talk}} EMsmile (talk) 09:53, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

:I can live with that. I think most of this is already present in that article.--C.J. Griffin (talk) 12:12, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

And so the proposed era has been put in the rubbish bin: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/20/climate/anthropocene-vote-upheld.html 182.239.146.143 (talk) 05:02, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

:yes, look like that. Good to see that someone has already updated the Wikipedia article accordingly. EMsmile (talk) 12:01, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

::Call me again in 30 years; I'm fairly confident this isn't the final word on the topic. Newimpartial (talk) 14:17, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

:::That's assuming that we are here in 30 years Pikachubob3 (talk) 01:18, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

:::It isn't, I have some of these researchers for professors and they intend to propose it again in a few years once "conditions are more favourable" i.e. there are people more sympathetic to them in the committee. 139.57.217.252 (talk) 16:57, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

:Also they only are not including it at this point, if we continue the route we are currently going down I would not be surprised like @Newimpartial said, that vote has not closed the book on this. Pikachubob3 (talk) 01:20, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

The Great Acceleration appears to be a subtopic of the Anthropocene. It currently has a section here as well as its own article, but the article is short and overlaps with this one. Should the article be merged into the section here? WeyerStudentOfAgrippa (talk) 12:56, 24 September 2024 (UTC)