In writing of " homogocene issues " Oliver Morton has floated a variation of the theme of the 'anthropocene ' that might take on a life of its own .
Though Greek-Latin portmanteau words are deservedly suspect , there has long been a need for an adjective to designate and reify a very important ecological consequence of the age of exploration-- the nonchalant homogenization of the biosphere that arose from the intercontinental exchange of flora via the botanical gardens of the imperial powers of the 18th and 19th centuries. By darwin's day, every nation had one , and they collectively transferred such no-longer-exotics as rhododendrons, eucalypts and arucaria, to name but a few, together with their symbionts and soil fauna, from uninhabited regions and obscure refugia to the four corners of the earth. There's no getting around it- the Homogocene is to the Anthropocene as the Pleistocene is to the Holocene > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
