It's (almost) official. The Anthropocene Working Group proposed 'the Anthropocene' as a geological epoch starting in 1950, part of a formal 2021 submission to the International Commission on Stratigraphy overseeing the geologic time chart. In @nature: nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

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No. I love The Perfect Beautiful Holocene Planet Earth. I am A Holocene Human. I never consented to The Anthropocene. The Holocene won't even see Its 12,000th Birthday. The Holocene and The Anthropocene, need to be seen as A Dynamic Balance, that The Human Population maintain.
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I think a better name could be: 'the Plasticene' given the extent of plastic #pollution. ♻️
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I question the choice of 1950 only because I don’t see a dramatic change in depositional character crossing the 1950 boundary.
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thank you. I thought it had already been accepted.
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Prof Cowern makes the interesting comment that the current phase is more likely to be like an (anthropogenic) extinction boundary phase between Holocene and the next ...cene.
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Wow I didn’t know the Anthropocene wasn’t an official epoch! I’m just a biologist though.
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Capitalocene!
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PLASTICSCENE.
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Context wilderness conservation: knew AWG today. Entire life valued skilled indigenous knowledge n produced innovative sustainable wildlife technology for WL manager, intelligible at grass roots. New epoch, new science, gadgets replacing indigenous skill, not good for living WL.
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