Our Success as a Species Is Not Something to Regret

Who says humans aren't exceptional? Scientists have renamed the current era "Anthropocene," e.g., the age of humans. :

It's an ugly word, one many people don't understand, and it's even hard to pronounce, [W. John Kress, acting undersecretary of science for the Smithsonian], admitted. (It's AN'-thruh-poh-seen.) That's why when he opened the Smithsonian's symposium ["Living in the Anthropocene"], he said, "We are living in the Anthropocene," then quickly added, "the age of hum...