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If only Eduard were Planet Friendly; Why I despair Model Manufacturers
Topic Started: Sep 24 2016, 01:49 PM (937 Views)
dknights
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Hhhalifaxxx,Sep 27 2016
10:10 AM
Recently, an international committee of stratigraphers and geologists have determined that, yes, humans have impacted the whole planet irreversibly and that a new geological epoch warrants officialisation: the Anthropocene. In order to define such a new epoch, a marker should be established in the form of something that occurred at a global scale and would be incorporated into the future geological record. The consensus of the committee was that the Anthropocene would have started in the early 1950s, with the spreading of radioactive elements resulting from nuclear explosions from Los Alamos, Hiroshima, Bikini, etc.: that would be one of the markers. Another marker that concerns us more closely is the spreading of plastic throughout the world : now plastic particles are everywhere and will certainly be part of the fossil record in the not so distant future.

So this is our legacy to incoming generations...

(This is a subject I'm involved with currently, as I'm preparing an exhibit on it for our museum.)

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My humble suggestion would be the marker ought to start with the rapid increase in human population that started about 1927.
David M. Knights
Fortes fortuna adiuvat

14 Finished: Special Armor V-2, Airfix P-51
15 Finished: SBS Gladiator engine
16 Finished: Brengun C2 Wasserfall, Merit SS-N-2 Styx, World's smallest diorama, Airfix Hurricane.
17 Finished: Japanese Carrier Deck, Belcher SS-4, Italeri AB41, PLAN Type 039A (not 72nd scale)
18 Finished: NONE
The bench:Platz T-33, Trump. T-34/85, Meng F-106, Airfix P-51 #2, Airfix P-40
Revell MiG-21F-13, Ace Citroen V-11
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InchHigh
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I agree the marker should be population based. We have just started impacting the planet, and in geologic terms even 1,000 years is insignificant. If the 20th century gave us plastic, carbon, and nukes, just think what the next ten centuries will bring!

In 1800 the human population is estimated to have been one billion, in 2000 it was (roughly) seven billion. Extrapolate the trend. Yes, I know there are factors which can alter trend lines, but you see my point.
Jeff

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I spent most of my money on beer and women. The rest of it I just wasted.
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Mark Schynert
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Greenshirt,Sep 27 2016
02:24 PM
What would possibly mark "the end" of the Anthropocene epoch?


"Everybody Loves Raymond: The Movie"--The oceans will boil off, chihuahuas will become the dominant species, and the only new kits to be issued after that point will be 1/72 Bf 109Gs. That new epoch will be called the Banalocene.
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Peter Lloyd
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I work for a very large hardware chain in Australia (Australians will have already guessed which company). Our waste (landfill) output is staggering. This includes that generated directly by customers: large bins here and there around the store swallow up huge amounts of unsorted rubbish, including hundreds of coffee cups every day from the paper-cup-only in-house cafe, to aluminium cans from the charity barbecue.

Rubbish generated from within the store is mostly sorted, but time pressures mean much isn't. I'd bring myself to care about the lack of recycle buins but I'm certain a large minority would just throw anything anywhere. And on top of that most of our products are shoddy ephemera built by near-slave labour (a power saw for twenty-five bucks?).

That's my work. My house is on a dirt road and my views are of some of the last real wilderness in the Western World. But my trip to work is 50km of endless litter, mostly drink and food containers thrown out of car windows. Even on my dirt road, which has about eight residences. The quiet tar road it connects to, to take me to the nearest town (2500 people), is positively lined with garbage. And there's a river right alongside.

Now if I take it as a given that I live among filthy people, the best way to deal with this is a container deposit scheme to make this rubbish worth money. The last time a politician tried this several large beverage companies teamed up and stopped it, citing their intellectual property rights over their packaging. They won in the High Court. (I travelled in France in June this year and saw very, very little roadside rubbish, I suspect because they mostly sit down to eat, and have some goddam national pride).

I'm afraid I long ago concluded that although I love many individuals, humans are a plague on this planet and my immediate reaction to news people are having kids is to think Shit, not MORE people?.
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