ABSTRACT
Anthropogenic climate change is a pronouncement, although one we have realised only slowly, that the intellectual divide between Nature and Culture is redundant. These distinct categories have no bearing on reality. The era of the Anthropocene started before we had even invented it. By the time Paul Crutzen coined the term at the turn of the new millennium, we had already well passed the point when our collective footprint on the planet, and especially upon the atmosphere, was pressing so hard as to change the functioning of our Earth system.
