What the Anthropocene’s critics overlook, and why it really should be a new geological epoch
by Simon Turner, Colin Waters, Jan Zalasiewicz and Martin J. Head, The Conversation
Geologists on an international subcommission recently voted down a proposal to formally recognize that we have entered the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch representing the time when massive, unrelenting human impacts began to overwhelm the Earth's regulatory systems.
A new epoch needs a…