Human pollution shows the impact of the Anthropocene on many issues. In this period, not only did our testing and use of atomic weaponry leave a distinctive radioactive signature in the sediments of Earth, but almost all human activities from water use to fertilizer consumption to globalization saw a dramatic intensification iii Many believe that it was not until the Industrial Revolution that our exploitation of fossil fuels and monumental increases of energy use and population started to push us far enough to “show a discernible human influence beyond natural variability." iiĪ third proposed start date is the Great Acceleration, or the beginning of the nuclear age in the mid-1940s. Some argue that the Anthropocene began with the advent of agriculture, because certain agriculture-related activities such as rice paddy irrigation and deforestation may have led to sharp rises in concentrations of CO2 and methane as early as 8,000 years ago i Golden spikes are used by geologists to define major geological time boundaries and large changes in Earth’s biota, such as the Ediacaran Biota dated around 635 million to 542 million years old. But even among those who believe that this beginning date can be pinpointed, there is still considerable disagreement. Some geologists argue that this is impossible to identify because we are still within the range of variation of any signal that might distinguish recent strata from earlier ones, or because human activity is diverse enough that no single moment universally distinguishes a period of time separating the Anthropocene from the Holocene. In order for the Anthropocene to become officially recognized as a geological epoch by the International Commission on Stratigraphy, a start date must be recognized that is global and can be defined stratigraphically by biological, chemical, or other types of markers. The beginning of the Anthropocene is a subject of heated debate among geologists, anthropologists, and others in the scientific community. (Image Credit: Human Origins Program, adapted from United States Geological Survey, and Visible Earth, NASA) When did it begin? The Anthropocene would come after the Holocene.
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