Timothy Morton: Anthropocene Prophet
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•Humans have long been a 'geophysical force on a planetary scale,' says philosopher Timothy Morton. That's neither good nor bad.
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Timothy Morton is an English professor at Rice University who specializes in ecology and the way it interacts with cultural issues.
Morton is also known as "the prophet of the Anthropocene" He says we need to stop trying to define when it started and accept that we've been in it for millennia.
Morton 's latest book explores how religion overlaps with science in strange and surprising ways.
Alexander McNamara is the Editor-in-Chief of Live Science.
He says the Anthropocene is caused by fossil fuel emissions.
McNamara wants to help people acknowledge that we did it. It's amazing that the solution is very simple. You just stop burning them. Why aren't we doing it?.
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