If We Can Start an Epoch, We Can Start a Farming Revolution By Hugh Locke Copyright © 2026 IPS-Inter Press Service. All rights reserved. -

If We Can Start an Epoch, We Can Start a Farming Revolution By Hugh Locke What a 1952 bomb test tells us about the power of 475 million farming families https://www.ipsnews.net/2026/10/if-we-can-start-an-epoch-we-can-start-a-farming-revolution/?utm_source=email_marketing&utm_admin=146128&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=How_to_Protect_Coastal_Communities_From_TideRelated_Loss_and_Damage_in_Bangladesh_For_Pakistan_Risin NEW YORK, Oct 2 2026 (IPS) - In November 1952, the United States detonated the world’s first thermonuclear device at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The test, code-named Ivy Mike, erased the island of Elugelab and scattered a signature of plutonium across the planet that remains in lake beds, ice sheets and ocean sediments today. This month, scientists writing in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment proposed this moment as the start of the Anthropocene, a geological epoch shaped by human activity. Co-author Victor Galaz of the Stockholm Resilience Centre called the date “a tragic reminder of the highly unjust impacts of planetary change.” Copyright © 2026 IPS-Inter Press Service. All rights reserved. -