The home of the Anthropocene

The Washington Post reports that scientists have proposed Crawford Lake in Ontario, Canada as the symbolic starting point of the Anthropocene:

“The lake’s finely layered sediments contain a thousand-year record of environmental history, culminating in an explosion of man-made disruption around the middle of the 20th century. That’s when scientists say human activities — from nuclear weapons tests and fossil fuel combustion to deforestation and global trade — began to leave an indelible imprint on Earth’s geologic record.”

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