Pyrocene
nameEtymology
From pyro- + -cene, coined by American academic Stephen J. Pyne in 2016.
Definitions
The period of the Holocene/Anthropocene in which climate change causes more frequent and…
The period of the Holocene/Anthropocene in which climate change causes more frequent and intense wildfires.
- Those images of fire on fire are the raw footage of a planetary phase change, what might end up as a geologic era we could call the Pyrocene. They will continue until, as Shakespeare put it, they “consume the thing that feeds their fury.”
- The supercharged blazes of the Pyrocene are putting millions upon millions of people around the world directly at risk, and even larger populations indirectly at risk with smoke.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for Pyrocene. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA