Revelations: The Catastrophozoic Era

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A black rhino in Namibia's Etosha National Park. Frans Lanting DPA/Landov

A black rhino in Namibia’s Etosha National Park.
Frans Lanting DPA/Landov

Today’s deadly change agent.. is man himself. And by the end of this book, she’s left us with a harrowing appreciation of the ways in which human beings have been altering the planet: hunting to death big mammals (like the mammoth or giant sloth or, more recently, elephants and big cats); introducing alien (sometimes invasive) species to regions where they disrupt a delicate ecological balance; and altering the geologic surface of the earth (damming major rivers, mowing down forests and cutting up habitats in ways that impede migration)…

Over the years.. “a number of different names have been suggested for the new age that humans have ushered in”: including the “Catastrophozoic era,” the “Homogenocene,” the “Myxocene” (from the Greek word for “slime”) and the “Anthropocene.

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