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Humans have impacted the Earth to such a degree that many scientists believe it has shifted the natural evolution of the planet into a new phase. Future species or visiting little green men will discover the stratum of the crust in which humans drove themselves and the majority of other species into extinction, and talk about pre-human and post-human geological ages of the Earth.

The designation of a new geochronological epoch is proposed under the name of Anthropocene: it is to cover the period in which man has become one of the most important influencing factors on the biological, geological and atmospheric processes on earth.


This in itself is not unique in the history of the Earth, but the speed of change and the fact that a single species has triggered it knows no precedent. In certain areas, soil erosion caused by agriculture has brought about deposits of thick clay layers that are clearly different from ‘natural’ sediments. The ‘Maya clay’ in the Central American rainforest is impressive testimony to the impact of high civilisation.


