Bruce MacDonald on Nostr: '…Crawford Lake will continue to accumulate new sediments for at least 10,000 ...
'…Crawford Lake will continue to accumulate new sediments for at least 10,000 years. That means a geologist in the distant future will be able to dig into those layers just as McCarthy has.
'They will see whether the world managed to zero out carbon emissions and stabilize global warming.
'They will learn whether people preserved threatened species and set aside nuclear weapons.
'And they will discover what lessons humanity drew from this record of the Earth.'
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/anthropocene-geologic-time-crawford-lake/
'They will see whether the world managed to zero out carbon emissions and stabilize global warming.
'They will learn whether people preserved threatened species and set aside nuclear weapons.
'And they will discover what lessons humanity drew from this record of the Earth.'
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/anthropocene-geologic-time-crawford-lake/