Earth History
4.6 billion years in 24 hours
4.6 billion years in 24 hours
Poster design inspired by the episode Humanity's Temporal Range of the podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed.
This is a reminder that we (Homo sapiens) just got to earth. We are a small part of the planet's history and not the center of the universe. I have it as a proof of "*humanity’s astonishing capacity for narcissism and grandiosity".
This is a reminder that we (Homo sapiens) just got to earth. We are a small part of the planet's history and not the center of the universe. I have it as a proof of "*humanity’s astonishing capacity for narcissism and grandiosity".
"*We are different from other animals in important ways, but in the fundamental way we are the same: We all have a temporal range. There is a gravestone out there that reads Humans. 248,000 BCE and then there is a dash, and then there is a blank space."
*By John Green
