Which of the following is an argument for defining the start of the Anthropocene? The Industrial Revolution, because humans became less dependent on livestock and thus methane decreased in the atmosphere The past 6000 years, because large reforestation efforts in the Northern Hemisphere sequestered carbon from the atmosphere Post 1950 s, because of plastics, radionuclides from weapons testing, and concrete production on a large scale Since 2001, because the United States did not ratify the Kyoto Protocol 19 years from now, because humans will have doubled the amount of anthropogenic CO2 in the atmosphere by then

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Which of the following is an argument for defining the start of the Anthropocene?

		The Industrial Revolution, because humans became less dependent on livestock and thus methane decreased in the atmosphere
		The past 6000 years, because large reforestation efforts in the Northern Hemisphere sequestered carbon from the atmosphere
		Post 1950 s, because of plastics, radionuclides from weapons testing, and concrete production on a large scale
		Since 2001, because the United States did not ratify the Kyoto Protocol
		19 years from now, because humans will have doubled the amount of anthropogenic CO2 in the atmosphere by then