The Anthropocene defines Earth’s most recent geologic time period as being human-influenced, or anthropogenic, based on overwhelming global evidence that atmospheric, geologic, hydrologic, biospheric and other earth system processes are now altered by humans.

Examples

• pollution
• destruction
• storm damage
• weathering
• land reclamation
• over population
• traffic congestion
• waste disposal issues
• recycling
• fly tipping
• construction
• etc.

The word combines the root “anthropo”, meaning “human” with the root “-cene”, the standard suffix for “epoch” in geologic time.

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