Sentences with phrase «of a new epoch»

We seem to be at the dawn of a new epoch in Russian Orthodox history, one that in all likelihood will be known as «neo-imperial.»
However, the more poignant part of a new epoch outset from financial authorities scrutinizing cryptocurrency addresses is going to be what the cryptocurrency village itself will have to do: Work to forestall unlawful sell on the blockchain.
This is the new of the new page in history, the new of the new epoch — created out of the old, surely, but materializing as one of an inconceivably broad range of inconceivable possibilities.
He put the birth date of the new epoch at the period after the Industrial Revolution, when humans were causing massive shifts in the biosphere, triggered by coal production.
The discovery adds to the debate about whether humanity's heavy hand in natural processes warrants the formal declaration of a new epoch of Earth history called the Anthropocene.
«Not only would this represent the first instance of a new epoch having been witnessed firsthand by advanced human societies, it would be one stemming from the consequences of their own doing.»
In reality, the arrival of the new epoch represents not merely the further spread of human influence across the globe but a fundamental shift in the relationship between humans and the Earth system — one in which human activity now accelerates, decelerates and distorts the great cycles that make the planet a dynamic entity.
When he calls for consistency in naming, then, we should name the Anthropocene not after the cause of the new epoch (techno - industrial anthropos) but after the new forms of life that have appeared.
The start of the new epoch is 1610, the geographers say, based on a complex narrative covering the colonization of South America, introduced diseases, depopulation, forest regrowth, transcontinental trade, species exchange and pollen counts.
Whatever the case, most geologists and paleontologists designate the beginning of a new epoch — the Holocene — at approximately 11,700 years ago, a time coincident with the sudden ending of the Younger Dryas cool phase.
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