{"id":11,"date":"2020-09-29T23:11:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T06:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allofus\/?p=11"},"modified":"2020-09-29T23:28:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T06:28:37","slug":"11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allofus\/2020\/09\/29\/11\/","title":{"rendered":"Keyword Reflection: Anthropocene &#8220;the choice we still keep making&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Anthropocene <\/em><\/strong><strong>: the time that we choose to live in <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The definition of Anthropocene from Coral, Camila and Andrea stood up to me due to it\u2019s high connectivity to our everyday lives and how we and our \u201efoodways\u201c still contribute in creating and sustaining this geological era.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Our food processes are contributing to this new epoch and all of the changes that it is bringing about<\/em>.\u201d This sentence from their definition especially stood out to me because it reminded me that we as citizens of this planet have the full capacity to influence the era we live even just by looking at our own food consumption and by getting more curious about different food processes. The era we live in is affected by our choices. Thus we are the creators of it with its benefits and its costs. If we look closer we can see what the Anthropocene and us created as Coral, Camila and Andrea emphasize in their explanation: \u201c<em>global climate change,\u00a0 disruptions in oceanic and atmospheric currents, the disturbance of the water cycle and of other important\u00a0 chemical cycles \u2026, soil degradation, the rapid loss of biological diversity, pollution with toxic and non-degradable substances, all accompanying a continuous growth in the number of humans and their\u00a0 domesticates<\/em>\u201d (Horn &amp; Bergthaller, 2).\u00a0 All of these consequences were created by us. Hence, we are the ones responsible. And how can we change it? Or at least mitigate such destructive outcomes of our behaviour? Simply, by just looking at our everyday lives and making small changes in our food choices and processing. The first thing you can start with is by looking at your plate and trying to understand the food and all the practises surrounding its production, distribution, consumption that all contribute to the destructive nature of the geological era we live in. One little step can go a long way and it all starts with the initial awareness!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you Coral, Camila and Andrea for defining Anthropocene in a way that made me reflect on my own life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropocene : the time that we choose to live in &nbsp; The definition of Anthropocene from Coral, Camila and Andrea stood up to me due to it\u2019s high connectivity to our everyday lives and how we and our \u201efoodways\u201c still contribute in creating and sustaining this geological era. \u201cOur food processes are contributing to this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2],"tags":[12,5,6],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-keyword-reflections","category-last330","tag-keyword-reflections","tag-last330","tag-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allofus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allofus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allofus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allofus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allofus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allofus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allofus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allofus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allofus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allofus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}