So, what does it take to bring on a new geological age? Members of the Stratigraphy Commission of the Geological Society of London give the following steps:

1. Change the atmosphere’s composition, thus modifying plants
2. Change the distribution and diversity of species, thereby changing the future fossil record
3. Acidify the oceans, which will modify mineral deposits on the ocean floor
Now does it sound familiar? Ah, you wouldn’t have to be Albert Einstein to know that the current times is the new geological age. This suggestion of planet Earth being taken over by one species (humans, of course, who else could be so inhuman,) was first made by Paul Crutzen in 2002. Crutzen, a Nobel Prize winner, then said we are now living in the Anthropocene, an age dominated by human activities.

I can’t understand why Crutzen’s study is not being taken seriously. Formalise the theory of the Anthropocene please. Most scientists and researchers agree and the others will that human activities are making widespread environmental changes. So much so that the bottom of the seas, highest layer of the atmosphere, and the poles are being affected. I am sure there will be n number of counter arguments and objections; let’s see what is in our fate…

Via NewsScientist