Anthropocene

Marshlands Conservancy, Rye, NY

Note: Although this is a nature preserve, humans have made an indelible impact on its environment ranging from litter and pollution, to inscribing their names and initials on brickwork of ruins, and carving pictographs and letters into the bark of trees. With humans having directly transformed the Earth's environment, the planet entered a new epoch -- the Anthropocene Epoch c. 1950 CE (and not for good reasons). Is this the final epochal period as we blindly approach our extinction?