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Re-evaluating the Anthropocene

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2016

Simon Dalby
Simon Dalby*
Affiliation:
Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University, 67 Erb Street Waterloo, Ontario N2L 6C2, Canada (Email: [email protected])
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Extract

Perhaps the most obvious point about the Anthropocene debate is the one that gets lost most frequently, precisely because it is the most obvious. Paul Crutzen's now famous outburst in 2000 (see Crutzen & Stoermer 2000) stating that we do not live in the Holocene anymore was made in part because he was grappling with the question of the enormity of the anthropogenic transformations of the Earth system. It matters that he formulated the term to indicate the scale of transformation in geological language.

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Antiquity , Volume 90 , Issue 350 , April 2016 , pp. 514 - 515
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd, 2016 

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References

Crutzen, P. & Stoermer, E.. 2000. The ‘Anthropocene’. Global Change Newsletter 41: 17–18.Google Scholar