Director’s notes

Cene One (“Education in the Holocene”)

• The many Ages of the Holocene
• What wasn’t mentioned: climate change, global warming, deforestation, biological annihilation, ocean acidification, soil fertility exhaustion, etc.
• Something is not quite right–have you sensed it?

Cene Two (“Holocene, Interrupted”)

• Late Holocene shifts and migrations (Serres) and accelerations (The Great Acceleration).
• Leaving a mark: stratigraphy and the Earth’s layers
• A pair of alien geologists visit Earth
• Telltale signs of an Anthropocene
• Other names for the Anthropocene

Cene Three (“Education in the Anthropocene”)