Open AccessThe Difficulty of Defining the Anthropocene
Author(s) -
Alka Tripathy-Lang
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2021eo156556
Subject(s) - anthropocene , environmental ethics , history , astrobiology , geography , philosophy , biology
Humans may be in a new geologic epoch—the Anthropocene—but different groups define its start at varied times. When should the Anthropocene have begun?