Why did behaviorally modern humans and no other multicellular species in the history of the Earth gain the capacity to transform an entire planet? Biology alone cannot explain this – Homo sapiens is just another …
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Why did behaviorally modern humans and no other multicellular species in the history of the Earth gain the capacity to transform an entire planet? Biology alone cannot explain this – Homo sapiens is just another …
Want to Stop Australia’s Fires? Listen to Aboriginal People https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/opinion/australia-fires-aboriginal-people.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share via @NYTOpinion
Sylvia Wynter answered that question better. ‘Man’ is a colonial relation. The anthropogenic question is a matter of freeing human and nonhuman ‘Things’ from the Man. The Black Radical Tradition strives to fulfill this imperative & reorient + redefine our species in the universe. https://twitter.com/erleellis/status/1217695007907307520
What is the Anthropocene really about?
Both Huxleys helped shed light on this...
The question of questions for mankind, the problem which underlies all others, and is more deeply interesting than any other is the ascertainment of the place which Man occupies in nature and of his relations to the universe of things. -Thomas Henry Huxley #histsci
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