The Human Age Elizabet Korbert Summary

In the article “The Human Age,” author Elizabet Kolbert argues that humans begin have transformed the earth considerably a short time ago. Kolbert in her article make an account to the past to a new perspective on Earth’s history, also she gives us reasons for which we are changing the planet and finally, she discusses about the origins of a new age called Anthropocene. According to Elizabet Kolbert, in the 1870s Antonio Stoppani, which was an Italian geologist, make known to people a new era which he designated the Anthropozoic. Stoppani’s proposal was overlooked; other scientist found it half-baked. Later on, in 2002, when Crutzen wrote up the Anthropocene idea in the journal Nature, the concept was immediately collected by researchers