Painting
Sydney In The Anthropocene
Oil and Acrylic on linen 2013
91.5 x 61 cm
This painting is another view of our wonderful Sydney Harbour under the influence of ‘climate change’ in the Anthropocene
“The Anthropocene is an informal geologic chronological term for the proposed epoch that began when human activities had a significant global impact on theEarth‘s ecosystems.[1] The term, which appears to have been used by Russian scientists at least as early as the 1960s[2] to refer to the Quaternary – the most recent geological Period, was coined with a different sense in the 1980s[3] by ecologist Eugene F. Stoermer and has been widely popularized by the Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist, Paul Crutzen, who regards the influence of human behaviour on the Earth’s atmosphere in recent centuries as so significant as to constitute a new geological epoch for its lithosphere. To date, the term has not been adopted as part of the official nomenclature of the geological field of study”
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
