{"id":26903,"date":"2021-04-15T12:33:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T11:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=26903"},"modified":"2021-04-15T12:34:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T11:34:00","slug":"word-of-the-day-anthropocene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=26903","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day: Anthropocene"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The &#8216;Anthropocene&#8217; is a term increasingly used to define a new planetary era: one in which humans have become the dominant force shaping Earth&#8217;s bio-geophysical composition and processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Initially emerging in the earth sciences as the name for a proposed new geological epoch, the Anthropocene has been widely adopted across academia as a catch-all description of the overwhelming impact of human activity on the planet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Key markers of human effects on the global planet eco-system are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Increasing average temperature <\/li><li>Rise in the sea level <\/li><li>Unprecedented rates of biodiversity loss and extinction<\/li><li>Changing chemical composition of soils, oceans and atmosphere<\/li><li>Effects of plastic pollution on marine and terrestrial processes<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8216;Anthropocene&#8217; is a term increasingly used to define a new planetary era: one in which humans have become the dominant force shaping Earth&#8217;s bio-geophysical composition and processes. Initially emerging in the earth sciences as the name for a proposed new geological epoch, the Anthropocene has been widely adopted across academia as a catch-all description [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26903"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26906,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26903\/revisions\/26906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}