Living In Deep Time

On the 25th October 2016, I attended the Big History, Deep Time & The Age of Humans Symposium event on the 25th October 2016 held at the University of Technology Sydney as part of the Anthropocene Transition Project in the UTS Business School.

Dr. Anne Poelina was presenting on ‘Living In Deep Time’ and also spoke on a panel at that event which made a great impression on me. I considered where I was located in relation to her ‘deep time’ story, those huge concepts that govern the way we identify and relate.

“… to consider the anthropocene as Dr. Anne Poelina posits means contemplating the end of the anthropocene, where long after these ‘civilisations’ as we see them appear then they will also disappear and the only role we have as custodians and visitors to country is to leave it in as best condition as we found it, where the technologies of today must be considered in the fuller picture of what impact they have on each other now.”