Ua hōʻea mākou i kahi au honua hou? Mai ka manaʻo o ka Anthropocene Working Group, pēlā nō. ʻO ka poʻe i kēia manawa "ke aupuni nui ma luna o ka hopena o ka honua a ua lawa kēia hoʻololi i ke kaulike e hoʻolaha i kahi au geological hou." Ua huakaʻi nā mea hana o "The Epoch of Man" a puni ka honua e hāʻawi i nā "hōʻike o kēia" me nā mea kupaianaha. nā kiʻi e hōʻiliʻili a hoʻomaopopo i ka nui o nā kānaka i ka honua holoʻokoʻa.
ʻO Jennifer Baichwal, ʻo Nicholas de Pencier lāua ʻo Edward Burtynsky, e hoʻopaʻa i "nā pā pōhaku ka lōʻihi e pono ai ke pale aku ma mua o ka hapalua o nā kahakai ʻo Kina, i nā mea ʻeli nui loa o ka honua ma North Rhine-Westphalia, kahi mine potash ma nā Urals. , ke kūlanakauhale ʻoihana Siberian o Norilsk, ka Australian Great Barrier Reef i nā loko evaporation i ka wao nahele ʻo Atacama, kahi i lawe ʻia ai ka lithium i ʻālohilohi i nā kala psychedelic, "heluhelu i ka wehewehe kiʻiʻoniʻoni. ʻO Dramaturgically, ua hoʻonohonoho ʻia ka hana Kanada "ma ke kikowaena o ka hana a me ka ʻepekema".