The Anthropocene
Soooooo I haven't posted anything proper since I started this and I'm still unsure of how to do the whole blogging thing so bare with. Enjoy this post about the age of humanity. I think this is gonna be my theme for a while since it's actually really interesting. The term "Anthropocene" is one which is fairly new to me. It's a term which is used to define the current epoch of humanity, however where the Anthropocene starts is still a debated topic. Some believe it starts at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution - when humanity first began to do the bulk of it's damage. However some argue that the age of humans should begin when humans first stepped out of their caves and started to colonise the world. I personally believe that both definitions are true, but if we're looking at the Anthropocene as the time in which humans altered the geological footprint of earth, then it begins with the construction of large cities and accelerates in the industrial r