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Surviving the Anthropocene

Category: Religion & Spirituality
Duration: 00:51:11
Publish Date: 2016-06-13 09:09:09
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ENCORE  The world is hot, and getting hotter. But higher temperatures aren’t the only impact our species is having on mother Earth. Urbanization, deforestation, and dumping millions of tons of plastic into the oceans … these are all ways in which humans are leaving their mark.

So are we still in the Holocene, the geological epoch that started a mere 11,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age? Some say we’ve moved on to the age of man – the Anthropocene.

It’s the dawn of an era, but can we survive this new phase in the history of our planet?

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First released February 23, 2015.

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