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Oh, that is flipping cool 😳 Too bad the idea about lining traces from one tile to the next didn’t pan out. That had a very nice, intuitive modularity to it!

Just build it out the window and wait for the waters to rise. Biblically correct method 👍

Editorialising headline:

A new force of nature is reshaping the planet, study finds

From the RSP opinion piece (not a study,) emphasis mine:

However, this coupling of socially produced environmental challenges with disruptive social changes—the Anthropocene condition—is not new.

Yes, we live in the Anthropocene. Yes, in geological terms human effects on the environment are new. But as the source also says, “new” in that context is still thousands of years old:

Global climate change, biodiversity losses and other anthropogenic planetary changes all began long before the industrial age

Plus, as is quoted in the OP:

Human sociocultural capabilities to engineer ecosystems, from using fire to clear land, to propagating favoured species, to agriculture, to industrial food systems, have evolved and accumulated over millennia

Anthroecology is the more novel concept here, and an interesting approach, too. But that is all it is — there is no “new force of nature” at play, only a recent framework to better understand and (hopefully) manage our detrimental effects on the world around us.

What you’re telling me is, this “groundbreaking” Columbia U project is already implemented by law in the EU? I guess somebody involved also invented a time machine.

A Birmingham-based therapy site seems like an odd source for an essay on a 70 years old avantgarde movement, but whatever gets you into the Situationists, I guess 🙂