Guest "Roaches check in but they don't check out!" by David Middleton Who could ever forget this classic 1980 TV commercial, featuring "the Greatest" Muhammad Ali? https://youtu.be/Pego09xexQI As Kip Hansen very eloquently pointed out here and here, the Anthropocene is every bit as dead as all of the cockroaches ever killed by Muhammad Ali.…
The International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) refused to recognise the current geological time as the Anthropocene (Human) Epoch because adding an Anthropocene Epoch ~ and terminating the Holocene Epoch ~ was not supported by geological standards used to define epochs.