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Relatively recently environmentalists believe that we are stepping into a new
epoch in time preceding the Holocene, titled the Anthropocene. The transition into
this new stage of Earth is driven by humankind becoming a geologically force in the
Earth System and is said to of begun about 200 years ago at the start of the
Industrial Revolution when humanity took control over the Earth. The importance
of the Anthropocene stems from the fact that it is important to realize the Earth
System is not the same as it was two thousand years ago because humankind has
changed it. It can not be undone because we are past the tipping point of our
planetary boundaries and our actions have already made several impacts on the
Earth such as rising CO2 level, ice caps melting, greenhouse gases present in the air
and global warming. These changes to the Planet are happening at such a fast rate,
