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Will naming the Anthropocene lead to acceptance of our planet-level impact?

By Lehigh University | EurekaAlert “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” This phrase–from William Shakespeare’s tragic play Romeo & Juliet–is among the most famous acknowledgements in Western culture of the power of naming to shape human perception. According to the International Union of Geological…

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