A Word From John

The Anthropocene Reviewed

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4.9 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2018

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. On The Anthropocene Reviewed, #1 New York Times bestselling author John Green (The Fault in Our Stars, Turtles All the Way Down) reviews different facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale. WNYC Studios is the producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, Snap Judgment, On the Media, Death, Sex & Money, and Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm John Green.
0:03.9	I write books, including the Faulkner stars and turtles all the way down, and I also make
0:08.5	online video like Crash Course World History.
0:12.2	At some point last year, I began to feel like my world had become unsustainably busy and
0:17.7	loud.
0:19.3	There was so much to listen to that I wasn't really hearing anything, so I started a podcast
0:25.5	in response to that feeling.
0:28.2	On the Anthropocene Reviewed, every month I reviewed two facets of the Human-centered
0:31.9	planet on a five-star scale, in an attempt to think carefully and even a little quietly
0:38.0	about the world we've built for ourselves.
0:41.0	By paying extremely close attention to almost anything, I think we can learn about the universe
0:46.6	and our place in it.
0:51.5	Sometimes I review small things like pennies or tetris.
0:54.8	Or did you know that Hawaiian pizza was invented in Canada by a Greek immigrant who was
1:00.2	inspired by Chinese cuisine to put a South American food on an Italian dish?
1:06.0	This combination, by the way, went on to become most popular not in Hawaii, but in Australia,
1:11.7	where according to a pizza-marketing quarterly survey, pineapple is the single most popular
1:16.9	topping on the continent.
1:18.7	Still, I only gave it two stars.
1:21.5	There really is a magazine called Pizza Marketing Quarterly, by the way.
1:24.6	It comes out once a month.
1:27.3	I also review much larger things like the practice of googling strangers or viral men in
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