the “Anthropocene Era”

We, humans, have changed, are changing, the planet.
Perhaps all species have an impact on the whole that is the Biosphere,
the thin layer of soil and atmosphere within which all Life lives,
but scientists who study the mostly long periods of planetary changes
over the past billions of years have always identified geological changes.

In the early nineteenth century the current period was named the Holocene,
the ten thousand years after the last Ice Age,  the time of modern Man.
Ten thousand years ago Man invented agriculture, and so, changed the earth.

Ten years ago, a Dutch Nobel Prize winner for his work on the ozone layer,
coined the term “Anthropocene” (“Anthropos”=human)
for the very last few hundred years, recognizing that it is no longer planetary forces,
or geological changes, but human power, force, that is changing our planet.