If you’ve vaguely heard of the Anthropocene but don’t have much idea of what it is, this website is the place to start. Timelines, movies, maps and more.
The Anthropocene defines Earth’s most recent geologic time period as being human-influenced, or anthropogenic, based on overwhelming global evidence that atmospheric, geologic, hydrologic, biospheric and other earth system processes are now altered by humans.
The word combines the root “anthropo”, meaning “human” with the root “-cene”, the standard suffix for “epoch” in geologic time.
The Anthropocene is distinguished as a new period either after or within the Holocene, the current epoch, which began approximately 10,000 years ago (about 8000 BC) with the end of the last glacial period.
that it all began to click into place. The result, eventually, was a new word – ‘technobiophilia’, meaning “the innate attraction to life and lifelike processes as they appear in technology”. And now, slowly, it’s giving rise to a new area of study. I get emails from people around the world who have come across my book and recognised what it describes. Many of them are working to put technobiophilia into practice.
, and to understand how I got to it, you’ll need to read the whole book.
