Debating When The 'Age Of Humans' Began

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🗓️ 12 April 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Humans have changed the Earth in such profound ways that scientists say we have entered a new geological period: the Anthropocene Epoch.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Maddie Sify here with Emily Kwong.
0:02.8	Hey, Maddie.
0:03.6	So Emily, yeah.
0:04.6	We have put out more than 350 episodes of shortwave
0:09.5	since we launched this show.
0:11.2	I am so proud and so tired.
0:14.8	I feel you. I feel you.
0:16.2	And, you know, obviously, the coronavirus
0:18.4	has gotten a lot of our attention.
0:20.4	But after that, can you guess what topic
0:23.8	we've covered the most and our listeners love?
0:26.9	I don't know. I feel like all you talk about is bugs.
0:29.9	OK. Wow, wow, wow, wow.
0:31.9	No, it's climate and the environment.
0:34.2	Oh, yeah. Of course.
0:35.6	It's one of the biggest stories of our lifetime,
0:38.4	which is why we're dedicating this whole week
0:41.4	to stories about climate change, starting today
0:44.3	with a new episode about the debate
0:46.4	over defining when humans really started impacting the planet.
0:51.3	Oh, yeah. We're philosophizing over here.
0:53.4	And then we're bringing back some of our favorites,
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