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Ice Cores and the Temporalities of the Global Environment
Environmental Humanities ( IF 1.2 ) Pub Date : 2017-11-01 , DOI: 10.1215/22011919-4215202
Alessandro Antonello 1 , Mark Carey 2
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Ice cores from Antarctica, Greenland, and the high-mountain cryosphere have become essential sources of evidence on the climate dating back nearly 800,000 years. Earth scientists use ice cores to understand the chemical composition of the atmosphere, which has been trapped in the air bubbles between the ice crystals as they form annually; this knowledge also feeds into modeling the climate’s future. Ice cores are not simply important sources of environmental knowledge, but have become important elements of global environmental representations and politics since the 1980s. Ice cores do a lot of work. This article is specifically concerned with examining how the practices involved in drilling, analyzing, discussing, and using ice cores for both science and broader climate or environmental policies and cultures take part in constituting the temporalities of the global environment. We suggest that ice core discourses have constituted and advanced specific textures and sensibilities of time in relation to Earth’s past, the history of humans as both species and civilization, and certain apocalyptic and determined futures. While the evidence from ice cores is meant to point toward obvious choices to control our global future, the temporalities of ice cores might not lead the same way. This article joins an increasing concern in the environmental humanities with temporalities, and encourages greater attention to temporalities in environmental history.

中文翻译:

冰芯与全球环境的暂时性

来自南极洲,格陵兰岛和高山冰冻圈的冰芯已成为追溯近80万年的气候的重要证据来源。地球科学家使用冰芯了解大气的化学成分,这种化学成分每年形成时都被困在冰晶之间的气泡中。这些知识还有助于模拟气候的未来。自1980年代以来,冰芯不仅是重要的环境知识来源,而且已成为全球环境代表和政治活动的重要组成部分。冰芯做了很多工作。本文专门探讨了钻探,分析,讨论,在科学和更广泛的气候或环境政策与文化中使用冰芯参与了构成全球环境的暂时性。我们建议,关于地球过去,人类作为物种和文明的历史,以及某些世界末日和确定的未来,冰芯话语已经构成并推进了特定的时间纹理和敏感性。尽管来自冰芯的证据旨在指出控制我们全球未来的明显选择,但冰芯的时空可能不会以相同的方式发展。本文对环境人类学与时空性的关注日益增加,并鼓励人们更多地关注环境历史中的时空性。我们建议,关于地球过去,人类作为物种和文明的历史,以及某些世界末日和确定的未来,冰芯话语已经构成并推进了特定的时间纹理和敏感性。尽管来自冰芯的证据旨在指出控制我们全球未来的明显选择,但冰芯的时空可能不会以相同的方式发展。本文对环境人文科学与时空性的关注日益增加,并鼓励人们更加关注环境历史中的时空性。我们建议,关于地球过去,人类作为物种和文明的历史,以及某些世界末日和确定的未来,冰芯话语已经构成并推进了特定的时间纹理和敏感性。尽管来自冰芯的证据旨在指出控制我们全球未来的明显选择,但冰芯的时空可能不会以相同的方式发展。本文对环境人类学与时空性的关注日益增加,并鼓励人们更多地关注环境历史中的时空性。冰芯的暂时性可能不会以相同的方式引导。本文对环境人类学与时空性的关注日益增加,并鼓励人们更多地关注环境历史中的时空性。冰芯的时空可能不会以相同的方式引导。本文对环境人类学与时空性的关注日益增加,并鼓励人们更多地关注环境历史中的时空性。
更新日期:2017-11-01
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