TEDxCanberra - Will Steffen - The Anthropocene
Executive Director of the Australian National University's Climate Change Institute, Professor Will Steffen, takes us on a journey through the science measuring ...
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Thanks very much, Steve. For those of you who are expecting a talk on climate change, actually thankfully, you won't get it. I'm going to talk about this rather broader context, broader term which puts climate change in a much broader context. That's the term of "Anthropocene." Now, for those of you who studied Geology or even watched Hollywood films, you know that geologists like to look at earth history in terms of periods, eras, or epochs, or something. You've probably heard of the Pleistocene, many of you. Those of you who have seen the famous Hollywood film certainly know the Jurassic era, Jurassic Park, but there's a group of us now who are proposing that the earth has actually entered a new epoch at least, perhaps even a new era which is a more subst...
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Thanks very much, Steve. For those of you who are expecting a talk on climate change, actually thankfully, you won't get it. I'm going to talk about this rather broader context, broader term which puts climate change in a much broader context. That's the term of "Anthropocene." Now, for those of you who studied Geology or even watched Hollywood films, you know that geologists like to look at earth history in terms of periods, eras, or epochs, or something. You've probably heard of the Pleistocene, many of you. Those of you who have seen the famous Hollywood film certainly know the Jurassic era, Jurassic Park, but there's a group of us now who are proposing that the earth has actually entered a new epoch at least, perhaps even a new era which is a more subst...
