What’s In A Name?

If we’re going to call this the Anthropocene, then let it be an age of redemption

Craig Axford
Dec 5, 2018 · 6 min read
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Sometimes an idea comes along that just takes off. The suggestion that our conquest of the planet is now so thorough that we’ve left the Holocene behind and entered an entirely new geologic period, the Anthropocene, is a case in point. That we might be such effective niche builders that we’ve…

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