More to the point, humanity is still paying the price for the disappearance of the megafauna of the Americas and Australia, the Oxford conference will hear.
And at this point humanity stagnated for thousands of years, swapping little shiny coins for actual things just as our ancestors did back when people defecated communally and leeches were applied to your tingly bits every time you felt a bit peaky.
At some point, humanity has to submit to the forces it has set free, find a modus vivendi with them – while at the same time it stands outside and above them, with the power to disrupt, change and analyze the system, and ultimately even to destroy it.
Nature's Breaking Points: Humanity Has Crossed 4 Out Of 9 'Planetary Boundaries' says a new study, reports Joel Achenbach at the Washington Post, beyond which we are destabilizing our environment and creating an unsafe future for humans in coming decades.
For better or worse, the entry into force of the Paris Agreement is a historic turning point, humanity's most organised response to date to the largest and most far-reaching challenge to the habitability of the planet and viability of its life: human-induced climate change.
Moreover, as disability studies scholars point out, humanity is in no better place to decide which human traits deserve promotion today than during the heyday of the Eugenics movement, even if society could tolerate the kinds of reproductive policies it would require to manage just the human part of the evolutionary equation.
As Terras et al. pointed out Digital Humanities as a term provides a big tent for all digital scholarship in the humanities (2013, p.140).
Could this be the end of Elena's last living tie to humanity, as pointed out by Zap2It?
Like masquerade points, losing all humanity points ends the game, with the vampire becoming a mindless beast.
