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Anthropocene
Anthropocene
English
Proper noun
Anthropocene
- The current geological period, wherein human activities have a powerful effect on the global environment.
- 2012 January 1, Donald Worster, American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 70:
- Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.
- 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
- Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
- 2000 May 1, Paul J. Crutzen; Eugene F. Stoermer, “The “Anthropocene””, in IGBP NewsLetter, number 41, page 17:
- Considering these and many other major and still growing impacts of human activities on earth and atmosphere, and at all, including global, scales, it seems to us more than appropriate to emphasize the central role of mankind in geology and ecology by proposing to use the term “anthropocene” for the current geological epoch.
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Usage notes
- As of November 2015, the English term had not been adopted in the official geological nomenclature.
Coordinate terms
Translations
the current geological period
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References
- ↑ Revkin, Andrew C. (May 11, 2011), “Confronting the ‘Anthropocene’”, in New York Times, retrieved 3 December 2015
External links
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Anthropocene on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
anthropocene
Anthropocene
English
Proper noun
Anthropocene
- The current geological period, wherein human activities have a powerful effect on the global environment.
- 2012 January 1, Donald Worster, American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 70:
- Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.
- 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
- Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
- 2000 May 1, Paul J. Crutzen; Eugene F. Stoermer, “The “Anthropocene””, in IGBP NewsLetter, number 41, page 17:
- Considering these and many other major and still growing impacts of human activities on earth and atmosphere, and at all, including global, scales, it seems to us more than appropriate to emphasize the central role of mankind in geology and ecology by proposing to use the term “anthropocene” for the current geological epoch.
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Usage notes
- As of November 2015, the English term had not been adopted in the official geological nomenclature.
Coordinate terms
Translations
the current geological period
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References
- ↑ Revkin, Andrew C. (May 11, 2011), “Confronting the ‘Anthropocene’”, in New York Times, retrieved 3 December 2015
External links
- Anthropocene on Wikipedia.Wikipedia