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%title The Post-anthropocene

Hi everyone, it's Madison here, to try something of an experiment. A collaboration of other, much larger podcasts has led to the project "Everybody Now", which constructs public domain podcast episodes, allowing anyone to post them to their own podcast and add their own reflections. This isn't something I'd given much thought, given the content of some of the prior episodes, but something about this one fits in well with the project, given the History that the Bălan clade is currently working on in Toledot.

What follows will be the entirety of the episode, unedited by request, which will be followed by reflections on the episode in the context of the Post-Self universe and science fiction as a whole.

But first, beloved listener, a bit of essential blurb. This podcast uses "The Anthropocene", an episode of Everybody Now. Everybody Now is a project of the Nomad Podcast, which can be found at nomadpodcast.co.uk. It was produced by David Benjamin Blower. My content from this episode is released under a creative commons 4.0 attribution license. This episode was funded in part by the Kickstarter campaign for Mitzvot, book 4 of the Post-Self cycle, which will be available January 21, 2023. If you'd like to learn more about the series, you can find more information at post-self.ink.

This is The Anthropocene. Stay tuned after for reflections in the context of the Post-Self cycle.

((The episode))

Part 1 - An introduction to geological time

The meaning of an epoch in science fiction, the role of it in the face of the present

Part 2 - What is the anthropocene?

What is the post-anthropocene?

Part 3 - When and how did the anthropocene begin?

What's the point at which the post-anthropocene might begin in this setting? What are the ramifications to the long plateau of temperatures and is there hope for a decline with the rise in uploading? What are the social implications of a vaguely eugenics flavored push to upload?

Part 4 - Some various shades of hope

The responsibility of science fiction the face of the present

((credits))