Definition of Anthropocene

Anthropocene

• relating to or denoting the current geological age
• viewed as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment.
• Example: "some geologist argue that the Anthropocene began with the Industrial Revolution"
• 人类世（18世纪至今，由于人类活动引起环境和气候变化的时期）

Paul Crutzen is credited with independently re-inventing and popularizing it. 

     Stoermer wrote, "I began using the term 'anthropocene' in the 1980's, but never formalized it until Paul contacted me." Crutzen has explained, "I was at a conference where someone said something about the Holocene. I suddenly thought this was wrong. The world has changed too much. So I said: 'No, we are in the Anthropocene.' I just made up the word on the spur of the moment. Everyone was shocked. But it seems to have stuck." In 2008, Zalasiewicz suggested in GSA Today that

an Anthropocene  epoch is now appropriate.

• Evidence of relative human impact – such as the growing human influence on land use, ecosystems, biodiversity, and species extinction– is substantial; scientists think that human impact has significantly changed (or halted) the growth of biodiversity.

• Environmental change occurring on Earth is suspected to be a direct consequence of the Industrial Revolution.

• William Ruddiman has argued that the proposed Anthropocene began approximately 8,000 years ago with the development of farming and sedentary cultures.

• Ruddiman claims that the Anthropocene, has had significant human impact on greenhouse gas emissions, which began not in the industrial era, but rather 8,000 years ago, as ancient farmers cleared forests to grow crops.

• Crutzen proposed the Industrial Revolution as the start of Anthropocene.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene

• Extinction of mammoths may due to rise of human, not climate changes
• Anthropocene- practical term which can now be used by those concerned with ecological issues to make us more aware of our influence on earth
• Human behavior is a geological force that has been changing the earth for a very long time
• Example: Hunt, Farm
• Web, living organism