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In Denying the Anthropocene, Geologists Ignored Clear Evidence


When a governing body of the International Union of Geological Sciences voted down a proposal to name a new epoch in Earth’s history, it rejected conclusive evidence that for the first time, a single species — humans — has fundamentally altered the planet.

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