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Humans are changing the natural environment so dramatically, and to our own detriment, that scientists believe we have entered a new geologic epoch – the “Anthropocene” – which began around 1950 and is characterized by unprecedented planetary pollution.

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So those category labels are like mood or note density or composer style of a piece or the epoch during which it was written.

It seemed like a miracle, and ever since, we have been living inside the golden epoch of the miracle drugs.

Epoch after epoch of sameness, nonevents without number.

I'm talking about what Jonas Salk called an Epoch B, a new epoch in which we become as excited about and curious about and scientific about the development of our humanity as we are about the development of our technology.

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