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  • proper noun The current geological period, wherein human activities have a powerful effect on the global environment.

Etymologies

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From anthropo- ("man") + -cene ("new"); coined by Paul J. Crutzen.

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Examples

  • First proposed by Crutzen more than a decade ago, the term Anthropocene has provoked controversy.

    RedOrbit News - Technology 2010

  • While the term Anthropocene has been used informally for years, a recent peer-reviewed British paper argues that it is now time to officially accept Anthropocene as a distinct era and to leave the Holocene to the pre-Industrial past.

    Mongabay.com News 2009

  • While the term Anthropocene has been used informally for years, a recent peer-reviewed British paper argues that it is now time to officially accept Anthropocene as a distinct era and to leave the Holocene to the pre-Industrial past.

    Mongabay.com News 2009

  • Zalasiewicz, Williams, Steffen and Crutzen contend that recent human activity, including stunning population growth, sprawling megacities and increased use of fossil fuels, have changed the planet to such an extent that we are entering what they call the Anthropocene New Man Epoch.

    The Anthropocene Epoch Sou 2010

  • Zalasiewicz, Williams, Steffen and Crutzen contend that recent human activity, including stunning population growth, sprawling megacities and increased use of fossil fuels, have changed the planet to such an extent that we are entering what they call the Anthropocene New Man Epoch.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Sou 2010

  • The new epoch, which they dub the Anthropocene, is the result of significant human actions.

    Are we living in the Anthropocene? « Gerry Canavan 2008

  • Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams, Will Steffen, and Paul Crutzen (the Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist) reflect that recent human activity, including stunning population growth, sprawling megacities and increased use of fossil fuels, have changed the planet to such an extent that we are entering what they call the Anthropocene (New Human) epoch.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010

  • Zalasiewicz, Williams, Steffen and Crutzen contend that recent human activity, including stunning population growth, sprawling megacities and increased use of fossil fuels, have changed the planet to such an extent that we are entering what they call the Anthropocene (New Man) Epoch.

    RedOrbit News - Technology 2010

  • Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams, Will Steffen, and Paul Crutzen (the Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist) reflect that recent human activity, including stunning population growth, sprawling megacities and increased use of fossil fuels, have changed the planet to such an extent that we are entering what they call the Anthropocene (New Human) epoch.

    RedOrbit News - Technology 2010

  • Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams, Will Steffen, and Paul Crutzen (the Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist) reflect that recent human activity, including stunning population growth, sprawling megacities and increased use of fossil fuels, have changed the planet to such an extent that we are entering what they call the Anthropocene (New Human) epoch.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • The term “Anthropocene” to describe the “human dominance of biological, chemical and geological processes on Earth” was first introduced in 2000 in an article jointly written by Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer.

    Racial Capitalocene 2023

  • Geologists first named it the Recent, then morphed it into the Holocene, and now debate whether to spin it off as an Anthropocene.

    The planet is burning around us: is it time to declare the Pyrocene? – Stephen J Pyne | Aeon Essays Stephen J Pyne 2023

  • The term Anthropocene, from the Ancient Greek word anthropos, meaning “human”, acknowledges that humans are the major cause of the earth’s current transformation.

    'A reckoning for our species': the philosopher prophet of the Anthropocene Alex Blasdel 2021

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