ANTHROPOCENE

Among scientists, there is now serious talk that the Holocene has ended and a new era has begun, called the Anthropocene, a term first used in 2000 by Paul Crutzen, who shared a Nobel Prize for his work on the chemical mechanisms that affect the ozone layer.

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The Economist last week ran a feature and editorial on the new age of the Anthropocene, a term coined by scientists and now increasingly used by others to refer to the age of humans in Earth's history, a period where we are perhaps the most influential force on the planet.  The realization, says the Economist, represents a major shift in thinking for scientists since it means "treating humans not as insignificant observers of the natural world but as central to its workings, elemental in their force." Read more at bigthink.com