Boing! Just like that! The Anthropocene officially started on July 11, we’re not in the Holocene anymore

We’re not in the Holocene any more. That golden age of warm, stable climate in which humans started farming, grew their population a thousandfold, and created high-energy, hi-tech civilizations is at an end.

Opinion
BY GWYNNE DYER
July 12, 2023

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | July 12, 2023

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