#Anbthropoene

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

"The term “Anthropocene” is a bad idea, because people may take it as a medal for humanity’s influencing even the world’s geology! I suggest the alternative names Thermocene or Pyrocene to describe what humans are doing to the Earth, or Obscene to describe the results."

~ Dr Richard Stallman

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“A general belief in man or microbe as the highest power in the universe means that for the time being mankind has completely lost its right relation with the whole cosmic body. From such a pathologic state civilisations rarely recover ...“

~ Rodney Collin, 'The Theory of Celestial Influence'

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"The Universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed."

~ Teilhard de Chardin

[Ian Sanders]