Extraordinary human energy consumption and resultant geological impacts beginning around 1950 CE initiated the proposed Anthropocene Epoch

J Syvitski, CN Waters, J Day, JD Milliman… - … Earth & Environment, 2020 - nature.com
Growth in fundamental drivers—energy use, economic productivity and population—can
provide quantitative indications of the proposed boundary between the Holocene Epoch and …

Sustainable development goals for industry, innovation, and infrastructure: Demolition waste incorporated with nanoplastic waste enhanced the physicomechanical …

MA Abdelzaher - Applied Nanoscience, 2023 - Springer
The COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacts the increase in plastic waste from food
packaging, masks, gloves, and personal protective equipment (PPE), resulting in an …

Global human-made mass exceeds all living biomass

E Elhacham, L Ben-Uri, J Grozovski, YM Bar-On, R Milo - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Humanity has become a dominant force in shaping the face of Earth 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
An emerging question is how the overall material output of human activities compares to the …

The planetary commons: A new paradigm for safeguarding Earth-regulating systems in the Anthropocene

J Rockström, L Kotzé, S Milutinović… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
The Anthropocene signifies the start of a no-analogue trajectory of the Earth system that is
fundamentally different from the Holocene. This new trajectory is characterized by rising …

Defining the onset of the Anthropocene

CN Waters, SD Turner - Science, 2022 - science.org
Earth's geological history is divided into chronostratigraphic units that distinguish phases in
the planet's evolution by summarizing complex biotic, geochemical, and climatic changes …

The Anthropocene as an event, not an epoch

P Gibbard, M Walker, A Bauer… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Over the course of the last decade the concept of the Anthropocene has become widely
established within and beyond the geoscientific literature but its boundaries remain …

[图书][B] Capital is dead: Is this something worse?

MK Wark - 2021 - books.google.com
It's not capitalism, it's not neoliberalism-what if it's something worse? In this radical and
visionary new book, McKenzie Wark argues that information has empowered a new kind of …

Candidate sites and other reference sections for the Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point of the Anthropocene series

CN Waters, SD Turner, J Zalasiewicz… - The Anthropocene …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
We review and compare proposals for 12 reference sections submitted to the Anthropocene
Working Group of the International Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy, of which …

The Anthropocene: Comparing its meaning in geology (chronostratigraphy) with conceptual approaches arising in other disciplines

J Zalasiewicz, CN Waters, EC Ellis, MJ Head, D Vidas… - 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The term Anthropocene initially emerged from the Earth System science community in the
early 2000s, denoting a concept that the Holocene Epoch has terminated as a consequence …

[图书][B] The Anthropocene: Key issues for the humanities

E Horn, H Bergthaller - 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
The Anthropocene is a concept which challenges the foundations of humanities scholarship
as it is traditionally understood. It calls not only for closer engagement with the natural …