We live in the Age of Extinctions-the call for naming our time"Anthropocene"is no more than hubris and escapism from this colossal sin.Although the6thmass extinction has possibly already started(Barnosky et al.,201...We live in the Age of Extinctions-the call for naming our time"Anthropocene"is no more than hubris and escapism from this colossal sin.Although the6thmass extinction has possibly already started(Barnosky et al.,2011),and it may prove the largest so far to be endured by life on Earth,efforts are needed not to turn this into the Age of Loneliness,when humans may find themselves Masters of the Earthbut alone(Wilson,2014).展开更多
文摘We live in the Age of Extinctions-the call for naming our time"Anthropocene"is no more than hubris and escapism from this colossal sin.Although the6thmass extinction has possibly already started(Barnosky et al.,2011),and it may prove the largest so far to be endured by life on Earth,efforts are needed not to turn this into the Age of Loneliness,when humans may find themselves Masters of the Earthbut alone(Wilson,2014).