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A researcher studying the Anthropocene says the collective human behaviours behind climate change and mass extinction are the same ones we’ll need to reverse the damage
A researcher has argued that human societies have already demonstrated the large-scale cooperation needed to reshape environmental outcomes.When people talk about what humans havedone to the planet, it’s usually negatively – and there’s no shortage of evidence to back that up.However, a professor of geography and e
nvironmental systems at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, called Erle Ellis, has been making an opposing argument. He says that the same collective behaviours that caused the problem are also the only route out of it.Drawing on archaeology, ecology, anthro
pology and evolutionary theory, his work focuses on tracing how human culture evolved from early fire use all the way through to industrial farming and global trade. Each step, he says, has given societies more power to reshape the world around them and, in the process, transforming entire ecosystems at a planetary scale.Progress that came with a billEllis agr
ees that the gains
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