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		<title>Start Spreading the News</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Kloor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Humans have taken over the earth. Evidently there&#8217;s a new concept that confirms this, called anthropogenic biomes. Then there&#8217;s the recent push by scientists to declare a new era, called the anthropocene. I jest, only because this is not new territory. Environmental historians have built a whole discipline from this fertile ground. And geographers dug [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Humans have taken over the earth. Evidently there&#8217;s a new concept that confirms this, called <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/highlyallochthonous/2009/09/anthropogenic_biomes.php" target="_blank">anthropogenic biomes</a>. Then there&#8217;s the recent push by scientists to declare a new era, called the <a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/humans-may-have-ended-long-arctic-chill/" target="_blank">anthropocene</a>.</p>
<p>I jest, only because this is not new territory. <a href="http://www.foresthistory.org/Publications/EH/index.html" target="_blank">Environmental historians</a> have built a whole discipline from this fertile ground. And geographers dug the foundations in the mid 1950s with <a href="http://www.historycooperative.org/cgi-bin/justtop.cgi?act=justtop&amp;url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/eh/10.3/rr_1.html" target="_blank">this classic</a>.</p>
<p>That said, I do think the <a href="http://ecotope.org/anthromes/v1/guide/" target="_blank">human biomes classification</a> idea is pretty cool. Many ecologists still tend to view nature through a dualistic lens, instead of regarding humans as an integral part of ecosystems. A bit of a holdover from the wilderness movement and pristine nature meme. As Daniel Botkin powerfully argued in<a href="http://www.danielbbotkin.com/books/discordant-harmonies/" target="_blank"> Discordant Harmonies</a>, the dualistic mindset does not lend itself to solving contemporary environmental problems.</p>
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