The human-made “technosphere,” all the manufactured goods around today, surpasses the natural biosphere in mass and variety, geologist Jan Zalasiewicz of the University of Leicester in England and colleagues report online November 28 in The Anthropocene Review.
To which Douglas Axe, author of Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed, aptly replies: “Certainly not in elegance, though.”