How the term 'Anthropocene' jumped from geoscience to hashtags - before most of us knew what it meant
- Written by: Dr Duncan Cook, Senior Lecturer in Geography, Australian Catholic University
Though its use has grown in the last decade, the Anthropocene concept has been around since the 19th century. John Cobb/Shutterstock, CC BY
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