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The conference chairman kept referring to the Holocene, the epoch that began at the end of the last ice age, 11,500 years ago, and thatâofficially, at leastâcontinues to this day. 'Let's stop it,' Crutzen recalls blurting out. 'We are no longer in the Holocene. We are in the Anthropocene.' Well, it was quiet in the room for a while.
By this definition, we are in an interglacial periodâthe Holoceneâof the ice age that began 2.6 million years ago at the start of the Pleistocene epoch, because the Greenland, Arctic, and Antarctic ice sheets still exist. Read more at Wikipedia. This entry is from. , the user-contributed encyclopedia.