The Anthropocene: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Humans rank with the powerful forces of nature transforming Earth. Since the mid-20th century, population growth, industrialization, and globalization have had such deep and wide-ranging impacts that our planet no longer functions as it did during the previous eleven millennia. So distinctive is this collective human intervention that a new geological interval has been proposed; it is called the Anthropocene.

The Anthropocene is intriguing scientifically, fascinating intellectually, and dee...