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Others peg it to the detonation of the atomic bomb, an event that left radioactive sediments in the stratigraphy and helped consolidate a notion of the earth (Gaia) as something that could be destroyed by human action and dramatize the difference between Life as a planetary phenomenon and Nonlife as a coldness of space. Some place it at the beginning of the Neolithic Revolution when agriculture was invented and the human population exploded. Many criteria and thus many dates have been proposed. Even those geologists who support it do not agree on what criteria should be used to date its beginning.
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That is, the Anthropocene marks the moment when human existence became the determinate form of planetary existence-and a malignant form at that-rather than merely the fact that humans affect their environment. 1 Since Eugene Stoermer first coined the term “Anthropocene” and Paul Crutzen popularized it, the Anthropocene has meant to mark a geologically defined moment when the forces of human existence began to overwhelm all other biological, geological, and meteorological forms and forces and displace the Holocene. Many attribute the crumbling of the self-evident distinction between Life and Nonlife to the challenge that climate change poses in the geological era of the Anthropocene.