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To Think in the Sign of the Plant. To Think in the Sign of the Plow. To Think in the Sign of Carbon. How Cultivation Recreates the World

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An Anthropocene description (man’s geological era): (1) Following the climate drying up, the southern African forest turns into savannah: the quadrumane Hominoid turns bipedal; its intelligence develops, it turns predator and a parasite of the environment; (2) It then turns farmer and breeder; (3) With ox domestication, animal energy is used and with the plow, farming efficiency increases by 400%; (4) With industrialization, fossil fuels are exploited, the world Anthropization improves and the presence of carbon (CO2) increases in the atmosphere; (5) CO2, the most powerful fertilizer, enhances the use of GMOs and thus the production of food; (6) Agriculture governs the carbon cycle (the fulcrum of the biosphere) so that the anthropization of the biosphere is complete.

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Forni, G. (2016). To Think in the Sign of the Plant. To Think in the Sign of the Plow. To Think in the Sign of Carbon. How Cultivation Recreates the World. In: Biagetti, S., Lugli, F. (eds) The Intangible Elements of Culture in Ethnoarchaeological Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23153-2_5

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