Some British geologists are suggesting that the Holocene era has ended. We’ve entered a new geological age governed by human activity. The Holocene is a post-glacial era spanning the past 11,000-some years - all of recorded human history:

But now, a distinguished group of British geologists has provocatively proposed that the Holocene is over and that we have entered a new geological era — the Anthropocene — in which humans have left such a distinctive footprint on the Earth’s surface through carbon pollution, nuclear fallout, urbanization and other traces of our immense technological power that it should be officially recognized by international scientific bodies as “a formal epoch.”