Elizabeth A Hadly

Sep 2, 2024 | geoscientist.online | Elizabeth A Hadly |Anthony D. Barnosky

It doesn’t matter that the high courts of geology recently denied the existence of the Anthropocene Epoch. It’s here, and it gets more real every day. The Holocene includes the last eleven millennia, when tomorrow looked pretty much like yesterday, when predictability ruled, when we knew what crops to plant when and where, which flowers bloomed on spring’s long-established schedule, and what week of what month birdsong would fill the air.

May 13, 2024 | phys.org | Mark Williams |Anthony D. Barnosky |Elizabeth A Hadly |Jan Zalasiewicz

When we think of fossils it is usually of dinosaurs, or perhaps the beautiful spiral shape of an ammonite picked up on a beach during a summer holiday. We see fossils as ancient relics of the deep past that allow us to marvel at the history of life on Earth, of animals that walked or swam many millions of years ago, of the giant trees that became buried and crushed to form coal.

Jul 8, 2023 | thenation.com | Keir Milburn |Adolph Reed Jr. |Eriona Hysolli |Elizabeth A Hadly

Most contemporary arguments on the left about the usefulness of generational analysis are really disagreements about the functioning of class politics. Generational analysis can’t be reduced to class, but in conjunctures such as ours, it can add a useful temporal dimension to our understanding of class divisions. The point of identifying divisions within the working class is, of course, not to exacerbate them but to understand their causes, so that we can better strategize how to overcome them.