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Why is the idea of the Anthropocene so contentious?

Grist

The atmospheric chemist had won a Nobel Prize in 1995 for demonstrating how humanity was destroying the ozone layer, just one of the many ways people had radically altered the planet, from urbanization to releasing greenhouse gases. The comparatively calm, warm conditions of the Holocene encouraged the development of agriculture.

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Nitrous oxide levels are on the rise

Envirotec Magazine

Nitrous oxide is a greenhouse gas and one of the main stratospheric ozone depleting substances on the planet. TgN y-1 (approximately 10% of the global total) between 2000–2005 and 2010–2015. According to new research, we are releasing more of it into the atmosphere than previously thought.

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Understanding the Anthropocene, Resilience Thinking, and the Future of Industry

Green Business Bureau

Typically, a population will expand until it meets carrying capacity, or the maximum number of individuals that the environment can support without collapse; however, agriculture allowed humans to sidestep constraints of the natural environment, which gave way for society to continue to innovate and grow. .