Sundance 2019: Anthropocene – The Human Epoch

Anthropocene – The Human Epoch follows the Anthropocene Working Group in their mission to add this epoch to the Geological Time Scale. The phrase was initially coined by Paul J. Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer in 2000 in their proposal for the current epoch.  In 2009, the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy ordered the AWG–a collective–to look into whether or not this epoch is real.  These people are experts in their field, be it climate and polar science, oceanography, ecology, archaeology,…

"Sundance 2019: Anthropocene – The Human Epoch"