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Humans have ‘stressed out’ Earth far longer, and more dramatically than realized
21/05/2021 04:32 PM | Click to read full article
The influence of human activity on the Earth’s ecosystems has become so extreme that it now seems to be the central driver of environmental change, leading some scientists to argue that we should think of ourselves as living in a new epoch called the Anthropocene.
Usage of the term is still being debated, though, and one of the central disputes is when the start of this new epoch would be.