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Without 20/20 hindsight, it's hard to be so sure about the dividing line between one epoch and another as time marches on.

For instance it took until about 2010 to confirm that we were already headfirst into the Garbaceous Period by 2005, but it was just not that obvious at the time.

Before you know it the Enshittocene crept up without fanfare but the type of extinction it foments might not have been possible without the decline in conditions that came before.