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We’ve ruined the Earth so much that it’s gone into a new epoch
Humanity has altered the make-up of the Earth so much that it has entered a new epoch called the Anthropocene, according to scientists. Humans are leaving new minerals, rocks and other materials in the Earth and altering how it is made, a new paper argues. That has happened at such a level that we should start thinking of ourselves as having entered the “Anthropocene”, according to its authors, and have moved out of the Holocene epoch.
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That can't be good :(