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Second he talked about the Biosphere
and techno sphere, which revolved around the fact that “nature no longer runs
the earth we as humans do,” according to Mark Lyans. Essentially entering the
anthropocene is like a slippery slope, however we do not need to go all the way
down this slope and we can just go part way. In order for the ecosystem
services to grow there will be an advancement in technology. This advancement
will need to predominately focus on achieving a sustainable biosphere as its
highest priority. That out of all the settled contents besides Europe, the percentage
of wilderness went from 1/3 to ¼, based on George Peterson’s 8 point scale of
wilderness, out of the 12 zones.
Planetary engineering is a large
scale manipulation asking two questions: one what kind of planet do we want,
and two what kind of planet will we get? That ideally it would make nature more
user friendly, and that the living world is essentially like a big Lego
kit. The people who ultimately suffer
from geoengineering are the poor people living in Africa. Then comes
Anthropocene ethics which basically states that humans need to reconsider
ethical obligations and take responsibility for the ending of nature. According
to economist’s humans exploit resources, or at least rational people do. Whereas Anthro-enthusiasts take a moral high
ground and take more time trying to save the elephants that are essentially in
turn damaging crops that could be feeding the starving people. Ultimately the
idea of living in harmony with nature is far gone.
To end Rolston said that no matter
what the earth will always come back, it might not come back the same as it was,
but humans will learn to reinvent the earth. In the end we need a tapestry of
cultural and natural values not trajectory, and in the end our future must be
the center semi Anthropocene and kept basically natural.
