Involve social scientists in defining the Anthropocene
By Erle Ellis, Mark Maslin, Nicole Boivin & Andrew Bauer | Nature
Three dozen academics are planning to rewrite Earth’s history. The Anthropocene Working Group of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (of which one of us, E.E., is a member) announced in August that over the next three years it will divide Earth’s story into two parts: one in which humans are a geological superpower — an epoch called the Anthropocene — and the other encompassing all that came before our species had a major influence on Earth’s functioning1.
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