Did the Anthropocene start in 1950 – or much earlier? Here's why debate over our world-changing impact matters
- Written by: Noel Castree, Professor of Society & Environment, University of Technology Sydney
ShutterstockIt made world news last week when a small lake in Canada was chosen as the “Golden Spike” – the location where the emergence of the Anthropocene is most clear. The Anthropocene is the proposed new geological epoch defined by humanity’s impact on the planet.
It took 14 years of scouring the world before the...
