Posts Tagged ‘NOW Toronto’
Review: Anthropocene: The Human Epoch is both meditative and urgent
By Kevin Ritchie NOW Toronto NNNN The third collaboration between director Baichwal, photographer Burtynsky and DP de Pencier (now billed as co-director) continues the trio’s large-scale visual exploration of environmental change and degradation, but in the context of scientific research showing that we have moved into a new geological epoch defined by human activity. Read…
Read MoreAnthropocene reveals the scale of Earth’s existential crisis
By Kevin Ritchie NOW Toronto Can a geological epoch become a household word? For the last 12,000-odd years, the earth enjoyed the Holocene, the period of stable climate since the end of the last ice age. Nearly two decades ago, scientists popularized the term Anthropocene to describe the new period we are believed to have…
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