Making the Most of the Anthropocene:: Facing the FutureEver since Nobel Prizewinning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen coined the term "Anthropocene" to describe our current eraone in which human impact on the environment has pushed Earth into an entirely new geological epocharguments for and against the new designation have been raging. Finally, an official working group of scientists was created to determine once and for all whether we humans have tossed one too many plastic bottles out the car window