A modern term coined by Nobel Prize winner atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen, who argues that the Holocene epoch ended about half a century ago and we now live in a world in which the Earth's system is profoundly, lastingly, perhaps irrevocably, shaped by human decisions and activities. The term first appeared in a article he published in the 2000 newsletter of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), no.41.
Further Reading:
Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, et al., Anthropocene (Göttingen: Steidl, 2018).
☰ Steffen, et al., "The Anthropocene: conceptual and histoical perspectives," Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (2011) 369, 842-867. doi:10.1098/rsta.2010.0327. pdf
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