Will naming the Anthropocene lead to acceptance of our planet-level impact?

(Lehigh University) Does a name in itself have sufficient symbolic power to cause a paradigm shift in how humans perceive our role in the changing geological patterns of the planet? That is among the questions with which David Casagrande, associate professor of anthropology at Lehigh University and his colleagues grapple in their latest article in Anthropology Today: 'Ecomyopia in the Anthropocene.'

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