What should the Anthropocene Mean? (2024) Nature
Members of the Centre of Excellence for Anthropocene History have contributed to a newly published comment in the journal Nature on why the idea of the Anthropocene is so useful.
Members of the Centre of Excellence for Anthropocene History have contributed to a newly published comment in Nature on how the idea of the Anthropocene is useful across many disciplines, expert areas and in culture & the arts.
"Even without a formal geological definition, the idea of a major planetary transition dated to the mid-twentieth century remains useful across many disciplines."
Read the full Comment paper with co-signatories list (pdf 1.7 MB)
Online article (with alternate title) : Jan Zalasiewicz, Julia Adeney Thomas, Colin N. Waters, Simon Turner & Martin J. Head (2024) The meaning of the Anthropocene: why it matters even without a formal geological definition, Nature 632, 980-984.
Read also our Centre Co-Director Adam Wickberg's recent debate article on the future of the Anthropocene concept published in Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish).