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RE: We are living through the greatest extinction event since non-avian dinosaurs died 65 Million years ago
Amazing post. I love it. I want to see more.
It's a downer, but knowing this means we can work to change the outcome and deal with the dramatic effects.
We've got communities in remote places working tireless to adapt.
The folks in the Micronesian Outer Islands are just one of the communities around the world taking steps to adjust to the Anthropocene.
Annalee Newitz's book title about extinction level events gives us the the foundational blueprints in three simple words: "Scatter, Adapt, and Remember". To me that means Diversify, Anticipate, and Look back to our human and biological history!
My personal motto: We need to plant the forests to survive the Anthropocene now!
Firstly, that was a great post! Sorry to see it get lost in the void - the same has happened with many of my other posts. Perhaps you can repost it after a bit.
I'll surely check out the book. It's unrealistic for humans to go back our primitive origins entirely, but we can definitely cut back vastly on our voracious consumption of resources. Particularly the USA. Vaclav Smil's incredible book "Harvesting the Biosphere" estimates that if there were 1.5 billion (I could be wrong! just my recollection) Americans, the world ecosystem will shut shop. But this is another tangent entirely. :)