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A few years ago, in an essay in Nature, Nobel Prize-winning Dutch chemist Paul Crutzen coined a term. (1) Instead of the Holocene, he wrote, we should think of ourselves as living in the Anthropocene, an age defined by one species—man—that had become so dominant it was capable of altering the planet on a geological scale. Because he’s such a towering figure—Crutzen was the first scientist to warn that humans were damaging the ozone layer—his 2002 essay was read around the globe, and the term passed almost immediately into popular usage.
Crutzen has now published another essay (2) that is getting a lot of attention. In it, he suggests that dangerous climate change is closer than is generally acknowledged and that now is the time to start
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