Lumpenanalyst4d ago
#EarthSystem #Anthroposphere: "Human-caused #SeaLevelRise has significantly increased the frequency of extreme coastal flooding worldwide, according to a new study led by a Tulane University researcher." https://phys.org/news/2026-06-extreme-coastal-surges-worldwide-seas.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
Extreme coastal flooding surges worldwide as rising seas rewrite 100-year odds

Human-caused sea-level rise has significantly increased the frequency of extreme coastal flooding worldwide, according to a new study led by a Tulane University researcher. The research, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, found that coastal flooding events expected only once every 100 years are now, on average, about 12 times more likely to occur.

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Lumpenanalyst6d ago
#Anthroposphere #Indicators: "We must assume that these practices were embedded in completely different contexts of meaning than those of modern societies. This is what makes an #interpretation of them so challenging."
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-headless-skeletons-insights-farming-societies.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
Headless skeletons offer new insights into farming societies 7,000 years ago

Dozens of human skeletons, lying apparently randomly on and next to each other, with their skulls missing, present a terrifying sight at first glance. Since 2022, this is what researchers have been excavating in a 7,000-year-old settlement near the present-day town of Vráble in Slovakia. Are the headless skeletons the remains of a Neolithic massacre, representing gruesome evidence of a crisis in ancient society?

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Lumpenanalyst6d ago
#Anthroposphere #Technology: "archaeologists ventured deeper into the cave to an older layer called Stratum 11, where they discovered #evidence of #fire dating to between 1.07 and 1.79 million years ago. That could make it the oldest evidence of fire use so far."
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-wonderwerk-cave-bones-reveal-human.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
Wonderwerk Cave bones reveal possible fire use by human ancestors 1.79 million years ago

The discovery of fire was a major milestone in human evolution, giving our ancestors a way to stay warm, ward off predators, and eventually start cooking food. But exactly when this first happened is still intensely debated, as unambiguous evidence is difficult to find.

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LumpenanalystJun 6
#Anthroposphere: "to the authors, the social phenomenon of those who overcame hardship "pulling up the ladder" for others attempting to reach similar goals is motivated by people's desire to protect the #value of their achievement from being cheapened." https://phys.org/news/2026-06-hardship-easing.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter#goog_rewarded
Enduring hardship reduces support for easing hardship for others, study suggests

Although intuition suggests that experiencing adversity will increase a person's willingness to help others going through similar hardships, surveys show that this is not always the case. For example, immigrants who struggled through arduous naturalization processes do not necessarily support making the path to citizenship easier for others, and those who escaped poverty through hard work often oppose redistributive policies.

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LumpenanalystJun 5
#Anthroposphere #Cooperation: "69% of study participants chose to cooperate. At the same time, the study published in the journal #Science shows that people systematically underestimate the willingness of others to cooperate." https://phys.org/news/2026-06-people-cooperate-underestimate-willingness-global.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
Most people cooperate—and underestimate others' willingness to cooperate, global study reveals

The study "Homo cooperans: Understanding the nature of human cooperation" arrives at a clear result: 69% of study participants chose to cooperate. At the same time, the study published in the journal Science shows that people systematically underestimate the willingness of others to cooperate.

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Show threadearthlingMay 16

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4. The #Biosphere: The thin green envelope of all living organisms. It photo-synthetically harvests solar energy and cycles chemical elements (carbon, nitrogen, oxygen) between the other spheres.

For billions of years, these four spheres interacted in a balanced, slow-motion, closed-loop dance. The lecture notes that the Anthropocene marks the forced entry of an unprecedented fifth component: the #Anthroposphere.

https://youtu.be/un73L-jJgSE

#Anthropocene
#podcast
#lecture

How Humans Became a Geological Force

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Through detailed chapters, the book examines elemental formation, ecosystem structure and function, and provides a critical analysis of the #anthroposphere, highlighting how human activity has reshaped Earth’s systems and accelerated environmental decline. It critically addresses sustainability, resource management, and the systemic challenges posed by the current human-environment crisis.

#Anthropocene
#ecosystems

Dr. John Barentine FRASSep 18, 2024

#TIL there's something called 'auroral ecosystem services' ('"the benefits that are provided to individuals and society by the aurora"), and that there's a word for the part of the Earth system that is made or modified by humans: the "anthroposphere".

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2212041624000676

#Anthroposphere #EcosystemServices #CoProduction #PrimaryValuation

Auroral ecosystem services: A cascade model and investigation of co-production processes

This paper serves as an initial exploration of the stages involved in the formation of auroral ecosystem services (ES) and interactions between the ge…

anlomedadFeb 2, 2023

This is the February 2022 version of the #climate talk by the late #WillSteffen : "#Anthropocene – where on Earth are we going?" https://yewtu.be/watch?v=t2C6NfFIK_g
He explains how the #Anthroposphere not only rapes the #biosphere but also itself:
The explosion in resource use and biodiversity loss since 1950 was ignited and then systematically forced on all others by the people in rich countries. As a continuation of the well-known theme "The Great Acceleration", he shows slides for #inequality, #crime rate and so on. So, the starkest inequality within a society, the richest 1% vs the rest, and the starkest figures on accelerating #crime rate, deteriorating health, health care, ..., also come from the richest countries. They rape their own and all others.

Some therefore call it the Capitalocene. I call it the Econobscene – because it's driven by the intellectually inflexible mainstream economists #economics who set the agenda for all mankind via advising and justifying predatory politics and entrepreneurs.

"The Anthropocene: Where on Earth are we going " by Will Steffen. Euroapeum Winter School 2022

Will Steffen, an Earth System scientist, is a Councillor on the Climate Council of Australia that delivers independent expert information about climate change. On Tuesday, February 22, he gave the lecture "The Anthropocene: Where on Earth we are going", as part of the Europaeum Winter School held at UPF.

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anlomedadFeb 2, 2023
@polezaivsani @W_Lucht
In the 2019 version of his #climate talk "#Anthropocene – where are we going?", the late #WillSteffen explains how the #Anthroposphere not only rapes the #biosphere but also itself: in that version, he added slides of U.S. #inequality and #crime rate and so on, as a continuation of the well-known theme "The Great Acceleration".
Will Steffen's talk opened my eyes wrt #capitalism and its incompatibility with a habitable, global-civilisation-carrying planet. https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=XrpQ8myeFOc
Will Steffen Auckland

The Climate Change Crisis: Where on Earth are We Going? Will Steffen Emeritus Professor, The Australian National University Councillor, Climate Council of Australia The climate change narrative is changing rapidly. As evidence mounts that the impacts and risks of climate change are with us now and are accelerating, the words “crisis” and “emergency” are increasingly connected with climate change. This talk will present the latest science on climate change – observations of worsening extreme weather events, the challenge of meeting the Paris temperature targets, and the rapidly disappearing carbon budget. We’ll also note the links between climate change and Earth’s rapidly degrading biosphere, as well as the longer-term Earth System perspective on the crisis. Finally, the talk will explore potential solutions to the climate change challenge, and the nature and magnitude of the societal changes that are required. Will Steffen is an Earth System scientist. He is a Councillor on the publicly-funded Climate Council of Australia that delivers independent expert information about climate change, an Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University (ANU); Canberra, a Senior Fellow at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden; and a Fellow at the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm. He is the chair of the jury for the Volvo Environment Prize; a member of the International Advisory Board for the Centre for Collective Action Research, Gothenburg University, Sweden; and a member of the Anthropocene Working Group of the Sub-committee on Quaternary Stratigraphy. From 1998 to mid-2004, Steffen was Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, based in Stockholm. His research interests span a broad range within climate and Earth System science, with an emphasis on incorporation of human processes in Earth System modelling and analysis; and on sustainability and climate change. Co-sponsored by the Public Policy Institute and Vector

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