Is this a new Epoch?

What do you think? There are arguments that we have left the Holocene and the current epoch (since 1945) should be described as the Anthropocene.

Re: Is this a new Epoch?

Ive often wondered what future generations would think digging up someone from now with boob implants, cheek implants, false bum, hip, knee etc. Would they realise it was cosmetic/medical or would they think we were trying to invent cyborg monsters...
suppose it depends on how much written records survive.

Re: Is this a new Epoch?

Thats very interesting Bruce ,I wonder like Cass what future generations will make of some of the things we do now.

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'One man's trash is another man's treasure'.

Who knows the stuff they find could be worth a few bob eventually .

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They may even find a way of recycling/reusing plastic! What a bonanza that would be.

Re: Is this a new Epoch?

We do now don't we?