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The #Anthropocene magazine is Future Earth journal. You can read the story in the following article by Andrew Revkin:

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/697198

I personally hesitate about the use of the 'Anthropocene' term because of two main reasons:

1- When did the Anthropocene start? Is there a stratigraphic marker we can use?
Read:
http://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/26/3/article/i1052-5173-26-3-4.htm

2- 'Anthropo' means human. Are all humans to blame for this geological change?
Read: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/697198

#geology #ClimateChange