| It was important to develop an ethical basis needed for the new Anthropocene Era. |
| And one of the messages of the Anthropocene is that piecemeal actions can quickly add up to planetary change. |
| Some Earth scientists think the planet is entering, as it did 56m years ago, a new epoch the Anthropocene. |
| However great their potential, they are an inescapable part of the human transformations of the Anthropocene, not an alternative to it. |
| As Simon Lewis, an ecologist at the University of Leeds, points out, embracing the Anthropocene as an idea means reversing this trend. |
| In the Anthropocene era, freshwater will be in different places where it exists at all. |
