Have we entered a new epoch?

Extract from ABC News

Late Night Live

• Listen now(Link will open in new window)
• Download audio

Thursday 4 May 2017 10:05PM (view full episode)

Image: ( Link to larger image. / Getty Images)

For most ordinary people, the ecological crisis can seem like something that takes place outside of our everyday lives.
Political leaders, intellectuals and commentators often break this issue down into bite sized components, without looking at the picture as a whole.
Professor of Public Ethics, Clive Hamilton argues that all the evidence points to the fact that humans have become so powerful that we have entered a new and dangerous geological epoch…one in which the human imprint has now become so large and active that it rivals the great forces of Nature in its impact on the Earth’s functioning.

Guests

Dr Clive Hamilton

Professor of Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University

Publications

Title

Defiant Earth

Author

Clive Hamilton

Publisher

Allen and Unwin