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Letters: ‘The Anthropocene Epoch Is Not Hubris’

Members of the Anthropocene Working Group defend the proposed geological epoch.
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The Anthropocene Is a Joke

In August, Peter Brannen argued that the period during which humans have had a significant impact on Earth—which some scientists have proposed calling the Anthropocene—should not be considered a new geological epoch.


Peter Brannen asserts that little will ultimately remain of human changes to the Earth, arguing that they are a brief  “event” rather than

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