We’re not officially in the Anthropocene yet, because geologists move almost as slowly as geology.

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By Amelia UrryAug 31, 2016, 6:06 am131 pts
It’s taking the international geological community a really long time to formally acknowledge the current geological epoch. Coined by stratigraphers Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer in 2000, the “Anthropocene” took over from the Holocene once humans became the dominant force of geologic change, sometime…

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