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Sincethebeginning of the agro-industrial period, mankind’s use of Earth’s resources has grown so much that it seems justified to denominate the past two centuries into the future as a new geological epoch: ‘The Anthropocene’. This transition is also marked by major changes in the chemistry and chemical composition of the atmosphere.
This text was first published as Chap. 7 by Paul J. Crutzen: “Atmospheric Chemistry in the ‘Anthropocene’” in: W. Steffen; J. Jäger; D.J. Carson; C. Bradshaw (eds.): Challenges of a Changing Earth. Proceedings of the Global Change Open Science Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 10–13 July 2001 (Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2002): 45–48. Permission was granted by Springer Verlag in Heidelberg.
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Crutzen, P.J. (2021). Atmospheric Chemistry in the ‘Anthropocene’ (2002). In: Benner, S., Lax, G., Crutzen, P.J., Pöschl, U., Lelieveld, J., Brauch, H.G. (eds) Paul J. Crutzen and the Anthropocene: A New Epoch in Earth’s History. The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82202-6_5
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