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The world is hot, and getting hotter. But higher temperatures aren\u2019t the only impact our species is having on mother Earth. Urbanization, deforestation, and dumping millions of tons of plastic into the oceans \u2026 these are all ways in which humans are leaving their mark.\nSo are we still in the Holocene, the geological epoch that started a mere 11,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age? Some say we\u2019ve moved on to the age of man \u2013 the Anthropocene.\nIt\u2019s the dawn of an era, but can we survive this new phase in the history of our planet?\nGuests:\n\n\nPat Porter - Relative\n\n\nJonathan Amos \u2013 Science writer for the BBC in London\n\n\nGaia Vince \u2013 Writer, broadcaster, former editor for New Scientist, news editor of Nature, and author of Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made\n\n\n\nDavid Grinspoon \u2013 Astrobiologist, senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona\n\n\nFrancisco Valero \u2013 Emeritus physicist and research scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego\n\n\nOriginally aired February 23, 2015.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices