To the extent that there is one we – understood as a global human community – it is because we are in the same situation: We live on a planet we ourselves have brought into radical imbalance. Since few have truly acknowledged this situation and truly understood it, we are still an unconscious community without an identity and a clear plan.
In the book The Anthropocene the authors examine a geological concept for our own time and point out that it signifies a geological epoch, a fate and a situation more than a problem. Does this mean we can do nothing? Both yes and no: We cannot simply get out of the anthropocene, understood as the epoch where the human effect on the planet exceeds the geophysical forces, since it is a threshold we have already crossed. Among the irreversible effects we have triggered are the melting of the ice on the poles, the warming of the ocean, the disruption of the nitrogen and phosphorus cycles in agriculture and the loss of soil. But we can do something to limit the damage and the enormous changes we have initiated, such as plastic pollution,
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