The Anthropocene is an idea most of us have heard of, but the concept is largely varied and involves so much its understanding can often get lost. The literal meaning of the Anthropocene is: the current epoch we are living in after the Holocene within the Quaternary Period is within the Cenozoic Era. The basic…
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The Anthropocene: A New and Contested Concept
All around us the planet is dying – and humans are responsible. In fact, the influence that we are having on the global environment is so great that it has been suggested that we have moved into a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. Coming from the Greek words for human (‘anthropos’) and new (‘cene’), this…
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