The Anthropocene deserves official recognition, some experts argue

Source: AGU Advances This is an authorized translation of an Eos article. Humans have reshaped Earth so profoundly that in 2000, atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen and biologist Eugene Stoermer proposed that the Holocene epoch had ended and the “Anthropocene,” or the human epoch, had begun. But despite the extent of human-induced changes, last year the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) decided not to officially recognize the Anthro…