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by Ruth Westreich
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Title
Atlas and the Anthropocene
Description
IN MAY 2019, a prominent group of scientists voted to designate a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, that reflects the commencement of substantial human impact on the Earth’s systems.
It is hotly debated among scientists and anthropologists exactly when the Anthropocene may have begun. Perhaps its seeds were sown with the rise of agriculture and later, industrialization. What is clear is that our trajectory human dominance reached new heights with the Great Acceleration in the 1940s as the nuclear age began. Since then, nuclear testing and the use of nuclear weapons, combined with other human activities from water and fertilizer usage to environmental pollutants have dramatically accelerated the Anthropocene Epoch.
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Ruth Westreich
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Conversations of Consequence
Citation
Ruth Westreich, “Atlas and the Anthropocene,”
Conversations of Consequence by Ruth Westreich
, accessed June 14, 2025,
https://biblio.csusm.edu/context-library-series/westreich/document/216
.