<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/cad2fb07-a3ea-44f4-9930-8cb4a581156f/741B00BF-660C-41E7-9181-6FA5FAFC56F6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427281.300-posthuman-earth-how-the-planet-will-recover-from-us.html?full=true" href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427281.300-posthuman-earth-how-the-planet-will-recover-from-us.html?full=true" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427281.300-posthuman-earth-how-the-planet-will-recover-from-us.html?full=true"><DIV class="hldpg" id="pgtop"> <P><A href="http://www.newscientist.com/">Home</A> <SPAN class="separator">|</SPAN><A href="http://www.newscientist.com/section/environment">Environment</A> <SPAN class="separator">|</SPAN><A href="http://www.newscientist.com/section/life">Life</A> <SPAN class="separator">|</SPAN> <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/section/in-depth "> In-Depth Articles </A> </p> <H1> Post-human Earth: How the planet will recover from us </H1> <UL class="markerlist"> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> 30 September 2009 by <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/search?rbauthors=Bob+Holmes"><B>Bob Holmes</B></A> </LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Magazine issue <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/issue/2728">2728</A>. <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/subscribe?promcode=nsarttop"><B>Subscribe</B></A> and get 4 free issues.</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> For similar stories, visit the <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/topic/endangered-species"><B>Endangered Species</B></A> and <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/topic/climate-change"><B>Climate Change</B></A> Topic Guides </LI> </UL> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427281.300-posthuman-earth-how-the-planet-will-recover-from-us.html?full=true"><P class="infuse">WHEN Nobel prize-winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen coined the word <A target="nsarticle" href="http://www.mpch-mainz.mpg.de/~air/anthropocene/">Anthropocene around 10 years ago</A>, he gave birth to a powerful idea: that human activity is now affecting the Earth so profoundly that we are entering a <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19726413.800-have-humans-created-a-new-geological-epoch.html">new geological epoch</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427281.300-posthuman-earth-how-the-planet-will-recover-from-us.html?full=true"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.newscientist.com/img/8B928471-961D-4D27-AD15-D996ADBC97E2" alt="Could a post-human Earth resemble the barren mud pools of Iceland perhaps? (Image: Andy Taylor Smith/Corbis)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427281.300-posthuman-earth-how-the-planet-will-recover-from-us.html?full=true"><P class="lowlight">Could a post-human Earth resemble the barren mud pools of Iceland perhaps? (Image: Andy Taylor Smith/Corbis)</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427281.300-posthuman-earth-how-the-planet-will-recover-from-us.html?full=true"><P class="infuse">Whether our species would survive is hard to predict, but what of the fate of the Earth itself? It is often said that when we talk about "saving the planet" we are really talking about saving ourselves: the planet will be just fine without us. But would it? Or would an end-Anthropocene cataclysm damage it so badly that it becomes a sterile wasteland?</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/741B00BF-660C-41E7-9181-6FA5FAFC56F6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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