Exit the Holocene
Humans have so altered the Earth — from carbon dioxide levels to wholesale changes to plant and animal populations — that we’ve created a whole new geological epoch for ourselves, according to research published this week by the Geological Society of America. The authors of the study conclude that Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen was right and we no longer live in the Holocene, but in the Anthropocene.
Graphic of the Earth’s geological time scale courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey
[...] might have ushered Earth into the Anthropocene, but we’d be unwise to ignore the fact that we’re always going to be living in the Age [...]