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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