Post #4174416
2026-07-28 14:43 UTC
…“ if we look in the fossil record – in the stratigraphic record – what are the signatures of the anthropocene?
Well, it’s plastic for example. By 2050 there’ll be more plastic in the sea than harvestable fish.
There are traces in the fossil record of our atmospheric nuclear weapons tests.
But one of the the signatures of what what some people are calling the anthropocene is chicken bones, because the chicken is the world’s most popular bird…
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@urlyman@mastodon.social 2026-07-28 14:46
…“There are 12 billion chickens alive now – but not for long, right, because there’s 90 days from egg to nugget – and every year we go through 50 billion chickens, and that number’s only going up. So, trillions of chicken bones already in the fossil record, and that’s a sign that it’s not a natural part of being human: that there should be so many chicken bones. If there’s any civilization afterwards they’ll find all these chicken bones and they'll be like ‘Well what generated that?’…