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Anthropocene Book Review Released in February Issue of GVSU Interchange Newsletter

February 05, 2019

Ancient and recent human-driven biological, chemical, and physical changes to the Earth system are world-wide, profound, distinct, and rapidly increasing. Today, multiple lines of evidence of globally-distributed anthropogenic signals suggest that we are now living in a radically new human-dominated geologic period on Earth called the Anthropocene. Herein, we review a new book that discusses the meaning of the Anthropocene, how humans became a force of nature and now dominate the planet – and the responsibilities this realization brings with it.

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