WHAT IS THE ANTHROPOCENE?
BY ERIC AXL
The History of the Earth is divided into a series of smaller chunks of time on a geological time scale. These divisions are called eons, eras, periods or ages. These eras are classified based on the Earth's rock layers and the fossils found in them. While there is much debate in the science community on whether we have left the current age, called the Holocene and entered a new age called the Anthropocene, there can be no debate that human activity on the planet has altered many of the Earths systems. There is overwhelming evidence that our way of life has affected the atmospheric, geologic, hydrologic, biospheric and other Earth processes in a negative matter.