The Anthropocene war: this was the explosive vote that decided not to change the geological epoch of the planet | Science

The British geologist Charles Lyell proposed the word Pleistocene in 1839 to define the last prehistoric epoch, today considered a succession of ice ages that began about 2.58 million years ago. The French paleontologist Paul Gervais suggested in 1867 to call the current chapter in the planet’s history Holocene, which began more than 10,000 years … Read more

Controversy with the Anthropocene: humanity still does not know in which geological epoch it lives | Science

The Dutch chemist Paul Crutzen, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for illuminating the hole in the ozone layer, proposed in 2000 that the planet had entered a new era, caused by the brutal impact of human beings. An international team of specialists, the Anthropocene Working Group, has analyzed the scientific facts since 2009 … Read more