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    1 year ago

    Scientists designate Canadian lake as ground-zero for the Anthropocene, Earth’s new epoch

    Yay!

    Layered sediment at the bottom of Lake Crawford – laced with microplastics, fly-ash spread by burning oil and coal, and the detritus of nuclear bomb explosions – is the single best repository of evidence

    Oh, it’s a bad thing. The lake is so covered in man-made garbage it’s being used as evidence that we should classify a new “epoch” on earth’s timeline defined by everything being covered in waste products produced by humans.