Folks can get confused about what such pronouncements mean. It doesn't change anything about the Earth, or about what Man is doing to it. No, it's just about a

Folks can get confused about what such pronouncements mean. It doesn't change anything about the Earth, or about what Man is doing to it. No, it's just about a word - do they endorse the word Anthropocene or not. That's it. A technical quibble. Like, is Pluto a planet? Well, no matter what they decide, Pluto is still Pluto, still out there doing its planetary thing. Whatever it is, it's doing it now.