The Human Era Has an Official Start. It s a Lake in Canada

Recently, a group of scientists have declared that the start of the Anthropocene, the time of outsize human influence on Earth, to be Crawford Lake in Canada. But how can a time be a place We ll explain, and maybe grab some maple syrup. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they, them) Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Alex Hackman, Ash, Bryan Cloer, charles george, Chris Mackey, Chris Peters, Christoph Schwanke, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Harrison Mills, Jaap Westera, Jason A, Saslow, Jeffrey Mckishen, Jeremy Mattern, Kevin Bealer, Matt Curls, Michelle Dove, Piya Shedden, Rizwan Kassim, Sam Lutfi Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet SciShow Tangents Podcast: TikTok: Twitter: Instagram: Facebook: , SciShow, science, education, learning, complexly Sources: Image Sources: