10 May 2011
Anthropocene: Have humans created a new geological age?
By Howard Falcon-Lang Royal Holloway, University of London
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13335683
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Anthropocene: Have humans created a new geological age?
By Howard Falcon-Lang Royal Holloway, University of London
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13335683
Human civilisation developed in a cosy cradle.
Over the last 11,700 years - an epoch that geologists call the Holocene - climate has remained remarkably stable.
This allowed humans to plan ahead, inventing agriculture, cities, communication networks and new forms of energy.
Some geologists now believe that human activity has so irrevocably altered our planet that we have entered a new geological age.
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Simply put, our planet no longer functions in the way that it once did”
Jan Zalasiewicz University of Leicester
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