Anthropocene Epoch: Has Mankind Ushered In A New Time Period?
Dec 22, 2024
For the last 11,000-years-plus the world has been in the same geological time period, but if a growing contingent of scientists and other experts has their way, mankind could usher in an entirely new epoch soon, the foundation of which is based entirely off of mankind's impact on the planet. The newly proposed epoch, known as the Anthropocene, was unofficially used by scientists starting around 2000 to describe, as the New York Times' Andrew Revkin calls it, "a geological age...