Via Scoop.it – Geography Education
The cover package of this week’s TIME—which should still be on newsstands—detailed the 10 ideas that are changing your life. What kind of ideas, you ask?
“Welcome to the Anthropocene. It’s a new geological epoch, one where the planet is shaped less by natural forces then by the combined activity, aspirations—and emissions—of more than 7 billion human beings.” Humanity’s technological advancements and impact on the Earth’s planetary systems is significant enough that many scientists agree that it has fundamental shifted the geologic paradigm.
