The Anthropocene was rejected as a geological epoch—but the idea is still changing how we see the world

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Sep 9, 2026, 1:20 pm63 ptsTrending
The Anthropocene became part of the zeitgeist after Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen launched the idea in 2000. This is the notion that a crescendo of human impacts has recently propelled Earth out of the relatively stable climatic conditions of the Holocene epoch, during which human civilization developed and…

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