As a meme, «Anthropocene» has as yet little traction in scientific circles beyond geology and environmental science, let alone the wider culture: A Google check on «anthropocene» shows 78,700 references (mainly in geoscience), while by contrast «placebo», a once - esoteric medical term
now well - established as a meme, has more than 18 million (and even the freshly coined «
vuvuzela» has 3,650,000).