"Anthropogenic Effects" in Genesis 1-11 and Francis Bacon

I Something about Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer's brief manifesto introducing their neologism “Anthropocene” to fellow scientists invites further attention.1 “Anthropocene,” they argue, is a “more than appropriate” coinage for describing an age of accelerating geological and ecological wear and tear owing to recent “anthropogenic effects.” The effects they have in mind are the “major and still growing impacts of human activities on earth and atmosphere ... at all, including global, scales” during the past two centuries. This period, they note, is characterized by an “astounding” “expansion of mankind, both in numbers and per capita exploitation of Earth's resources.” They

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