Anthropocene in Dutch

Anthropocene in Dutch is antropoceen.

Anthropocene in Dutch

antropoceen

proper noun

(geology, formal, strictly) A proposed but rejected geological epoch, in which the effect of human activities on the global environment has disrupted the natural variability of the Holocene, ending the Holocene. (It was rejected as formal scientific nomenclature in 2024 owing to not meeting a bar for how a geological epoch is formally defined.) [from 1960s]

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