Earth Is Not in a Sixth Mass Extinction
Peter Brannen, The Atlantic
At the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Smithsonian paleontologist Doug Erwin took the podium to address a ballroom full of geologists on the dynamics of mass extinctions and power grid failureswhich, he claimed, unfold in the same way.These are images from the NOAA website of the US blackout in 2003, he said, pulling up a nighttime satellite picture of the glowing northeastern megalopolis, megawatts afire under the cold dark of space.
At the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Smithsonian paleontologist Doug Erwin took the podium to address a ballroom full of geologists on the dynamics of mass extinctions and power grid failureswhich, he claimed, unfold in the same way.These are images from the NOAA website of the US blackout in 2003, he said, pulling up a nighttime satellite picture of the glowing northeastern megalopolis, megawatts afire under the cold dark of space.