Soc Sci S1 Organizations/People Flashcards
The Swiss history that demonstrated that sources in the archives of society can be used to produced trustworthy climate reconstructions
Christian Pfister
Environmental historian who led the push to form and name the field of HCS (history of climate and society)
Dagomar Degroot
Wrote the book “Silent Spring”
Rachel Carson
A body of experts on the Earth’s geological epochs and proposed that the Anthropocene should officially be recognized as a new geological time interval
The Anthropocene Working Group (AWG)
Who rejected a proposal to formally name the Anthropocene as a new geological epoch
The International Union of Geological Sciences
What groups were mentioned by the International Union of Geological Sciences that will continue to use the term “Anthropocene”
Earth, environmental scientists, social scientists, politicians, and economists
French historians who did include climate in their narratives of global history
E. Le Roy Ladurie and Fernand Braudel
Example of a scholar who argue that humans are reshaping the Earth’s climate system in a timespan that is shorter than natural processes
Dipesh Chakrabarty