A panel of experts voted down a proposal to officially declare the start of a new interval of geologic time, one defined by humanity’s changes to the planet.
My objection is that we already just switched from the Pleistocene to the Holocene in geologic time. Humans had already tremendously impacted the biosphere by the start of the Holocene.
Yeah, not to mention that many of these eras end with a mass extinction event, and we have one of those going on, right now. Why declare a new era, if it might be over after 200 years?
My objection is that we already just switched from the Pleistocene to the Holocene in geologic time. Humans had already tremendously impacted the biosphere by the start of the Holocene.
So Holocene = Anthropocene in my view.
Yeah, not to mention that many of these eras end with a mass extinction event, and we have one of those going on, right now. Why declare a new era, if it might be over after 200 years?