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What does Anthropocene mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Anthropocene? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. (geology) The current geological period, in which human activities have a powerful effect on the global environment. [from 1980s]
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At the recent Encountering the Anthropocene conference convened by the University of Sydney, an Indigenous elder described to me some of the allusive stories of his people's empathetic relationships with whales.
Keeping the Anthropocene free of ice ages will probably strike most people as a good idea. Dreams of a smart planetThat is an extreme example, though.
Indeed, geologists now propose that this should be regarded as a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene.
In the Anthropocene era, freshwater will be in different places where it exists at all.
The Anthropocene could be the period when humans get to prove just how well they deserve the specific name sapiens!
The idea that we have already entered an Anthropocene Era exaggerates our impact on the Earth.

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