Why its called Anthropocene- “Anthropocene”—from anthropo, for “man,” and cene, for “new” because human-kind has caused mass extinctions of plant and animal species, polluted the oceans and altered the atmosphere, among other lasting impacts. Anthropocene is the period of time during which human activities have impacted the environment engendered by the greed of mankind enough to constitute a distinct geological change.

The Anthropocene Project is a multidisciplinary body of work combining fine art photography, film, virtual reality, augmented reality, and scientific research to investigate human influence on the state, dynamic, and future of the Earth. It emphasizes how humans actions shape the environment in all its physical, chemical, and biological characteristics. Anthropocene is also known as the age of humans. Their argument is that humans have become the single most defining force on the planet and that the evidence for this is overwhelming. Terraforming of the earth through mining, urbanization, industrialization and agriculture.