proposed the term Anthropocene in 2000 for the present interglacial era known as the Holocene. 1Implicit in the Anthropocene concept is an emphasis on uncertainty and unpredictability brought about by the overwhelming impact of detrimental human activities on planetary ecosystems.As Timothy Clark affirms, "The Anthropocene could be called . . .an effect of radical and unpredictable emergence in the condition of the world." 2 Understandably, cataclysmic future scenarios are imagined for an almost unlivable Earth, o…