We live in the age of the humans, Our Future on Earth 2020 report confirms | Saturday Star

The changes humans have wrought on the planet in recent decades have been on such a scale they have altered it beyond anything it has experienced in its 4.5 billion year history. “Our influence is so profound it is pushing the planet into a new age that geologists are calling the Anthropocene: the Age of Humans,” stated a new report, Our Future on Earth 2020, released last week in South Africa.

In the Anthropocene, humanity has become a “geophysical force on a par with the earth-shattering asteroids and planet-cloaking volcanoes” that defined past eras. The 53-page report, produced by Future Earth, a global network of scientists, researchers and innovators, provides “a snapshot of our world at the start of 2020, helping to make sense of the state of this unique biophysical-human ecosystem we inhabit as a planetary-changing species”.

Millions of years from now a stripe in the accumulated layers of rock on earth’s surface “will reveal our human fingerprint just as we can see evidence of dinosaurs in rocks of the Jurassic, or the explosion of life that marks the Cambrian”.

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