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this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2024
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Naming things, whether it be periods in time or species, has always had a lot of disagreement. What this era we are now in is called isn't as important as the fact that we have changed the world so much it is/will leave a clear mark for millions of years to come. I prefer to call the leading transition period as the "fucked around" era, and the one we're now traveling in the "finding/found out" era.
now just Latinize it and you’re good to go – “Fornicaricene” (?) and “Inveniecene” (?)
Idiocene?