You've heard of the Jurassic, Cambrian, Pleistocene, Holocene ... now a group of world-renowned scholars is debating whether to declare a new geological epoch. They're calling it the Anthropocene. Mankind has so changed the Earth, they believe, that we're creating an artificial planet. In our film, key members of the group, for the first time on camera, tell the story of the Anthropocene - from the Time of Fire to today's Great Acceleration and beyond. And ask... ... how will our story end? And should it make us laugh or cry?