Year: 2016
Type: editorial
Abstract: la revista Nature publicava una nota breu del Premi Nobel de Química Paul J. Crutzen, titulada "Geology of mankind" 1 .En aquell text, que ha tingut una influència enorme en la construcció de la interpretació actual de la crisi ambiental i, en particular, en la interpretació del canvi climàtic, Crutzen començava per afirmar el següent:For the past three centuries, the effects of humans on the global environment have escalated.Because of these anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide, global climate may depart significantly from natural behaviour for many millennia to come.It seems appropriate to assign the term 'Anthropocene' to the present, in many ways human-dominated, geological epoch, supplementing the Holocenethe warm period of the past 10-12 millennia.The Anthropocene could be said to have started in the latter part of the eighteenth century, when analyses of air trapped in polar ice showed the beginning of growing global concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane.This date also happens to coincide with James Watt's design of the steam engine in 1784 2 .
Author: Jaria i Manzano, Jordi
Institution: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Language: Portuguese
Topic: Environmental law and policy
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Climate action
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7000130520