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<p><b>Pyrocene</b> is a proposed term for a new <a href="Geologic_time_scale" title="Geologic time scale">geologic epoch or age</a> characterized by the influence of human-caused <a href="Fire" title="Fire">fire</a> activity on Earth. The concept focuses on the many ways humans have applied and removed fire from the Earth, including the burning of <a href="Fossil_fuel" title="Fossil fuel">fossil fuels</a> and the technologies that have enabled people to leverage their influence and become the dominant species on the planet. The Pyrocene offers a fire-centric perspective on human history that is an alternative to or complementary term for the <a href="Anthropocene" title="Anthropocene">Anthropocene</a>. Like the Anthropocene, the concept suggests that human activity has shaped the Earth's geology and identifies fire as humanity's primary tool for shaping the planet and its environment.
</p><p>Pyrocene was first proposed by environmental historian <a href="Stephen_J._Pyne" title="Stephen J. Pyne">Stephen J. Pyne</a> in 2015. Since that time, it has been adopted by journalists and scholars in the fields of wildland fire, <a href="Ecology" title="Ecology">ecology</a>, and environmental policy focused on the impacts of <a href="Climate_change" title="Climate change">climate change</a> and increased risk of <a href="Wildfire" title="Wildfire">wildfires</a> around the globe. This research has focused on extreme wildfires in Hawaii, California, Spain, Portugal, Romania, Australia, and Canada. It has relied on the concept of Pyrocene to highlight how climate change, land-use changes, and direct human ignition have increased the frequency and intensity of these conflagrations.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2></div>
<p>The word <i>Pyrocene</i> is formed from two <a href="Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">Ancient Greek</a> words. <i>Pyros</i> (<a href="Ancient_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek language">Ancient Greek</a>: <span lang="grc"><span lang="grc"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%80%CF%85%CF%81%CE%AC#Ancient_Greek" class="extiw external" title="wikt:πυρά">πυρά</a></span></span>, <small><a href="Romanization_of_Ancient_Greek" class="mw-redirect" title="Romanization of Ancient Greek">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Ancient Greek-language romanization"><i lang="grc-Latn"><span title="Ancient Greek transliteration" lang="grc-Latn"><i>purá</i></span></i></span>; from <i> </i><span lang="grc"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%80%E1%BF%A6%CF%81#Ancient_Greek" class="extiw external" title="wikt:πῦρ">πῦρ</a></span><i> (<span title="Ancient Greek transliteration" lang="grc-Latn"><i>pûr</i></span>)</i> <span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">fire</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span>) is the Greek word for fire<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while "Cene" coming from the word <i>kainós</i> (<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%BD%CF%8C%CF%82" class="extiw external" title="wikt:καινός">καινός</a></span></span>) means "new". The concept is that this epoch is "entirely new". The suffix '-cene' is used in several <a href="Geological_epoch" class="mw-redirect" title="Geological epoch">epochs</a> of <a href="Geologic_time_scale" title="Geologic time scale">geologic Era</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Overview_of_the_concept">Overview of the concept</h2></div>
<p>The concept of the Pyrocene argues that humanity's collective fire practices have become an informing presence and a geological force on Earth. Fire practices include all those activities that start and stop fires among living biomass, but also those that involve fossil <a href="Biomass" title="Biomass">biomass</a> and those pyrotechnologies that enable people to leverage their influence.
</p><p>The foundational premise suggests that humanity and fire formed an alliance that increased the range and power of each. While fire has been on Earth for over 420 million years, as long as terrestrial <a href="Plant" title="Plant">plants</a> (<a href="Silurian-Devonian_Terrestrial_Revolution" title="Silurian-Devonian Terrestrial Revolution">Silurian-Devonian terrestrial revolution</a>), humanity has altered its regimes and expanded it into a planetary presence. In return, fire has enabled and accompanied humans to every landscape on Earth and even the Moon. Humanity enjoys a species monopoly over fire's manipulation, establishing it as the <a href="Keystone_species" title="Keystone species">keystone species</a> for fire on Earth and making fire its unique ecological signature.
</p><p>Together, humans and fire have upset biogeochemical cycles, including carbon, rewired energy flows, and, through the accumulation of emitted greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, perturbed global climate to such an extent that climate history has become a subnarrative of fire history.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>According to Pyne's concept of the Pyrocene, there have been three kinds of fire. The first kind of fire was natural fire, which began with the evolution of plants. The second kind of fire was human fire, which the species domesticated for heat, light, cooking, and the control of landscapes. The third kind of fire involves extracting and burning fossil fuels through chemical combustion and industrial machinery. This third kind of fire has created by-products in the form of pollution and greenhouse gasses on a scale that have overwhelmed the atmosphere and the planet's capacity to cope with the accelerated rate with which humans burn these fuel sources.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History_of_the_concept">History of the concept</h2></div>
<p>Fire historian Stephen Pyne first used the term in an article, "Fire Age," published by <i><a href="Aeon_(magazine)" title="Aeon (magazine)">Aeon</a></i> in 2015,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> then announced in the more fully developed form in 2019, again in <i>Aeon</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2019, Pyne used the concept to frame the September fire-focused issue of <i>Natural History</i> magazine<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and to provide a coda to a revision of <i>Fire: A Brief History</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2021 he condensed his notions into a small book,<i>The Pyrocene: How We Created a Fire Age, and What Happens Next</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The book was translated into Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, and Danish, and reviewed by both <i>Nature</i><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i>Science</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The Pyrocene has been frequently invoked in news articles about catastrophic wildfires in places like California, Hawaii, and Australia and the growing impact of wildfire smoke. Journalists in outlets including the <i><a href="The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">New York Times</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="New_York_(magazine)" title="New York (magazine)">New York Magazine</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="Wired_(magazine)" title="Wired (magazine)">Wired</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i><a href="Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times">Los Angeles Times</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i> has included it a review of recent books with a fire theme.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An overview has appeared in <i><a href="Scientific_American" title="Scientific American">Scientific American</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In his original conception, Pyne imagined the Pyrocene as coextensive with the <a href="Holocene" title="Holocene">Holocene</a> (current <a href="Geological_epoch" class="mw-redirect" title="Geological epoch">geological epoch</a>, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago), commencing as a fire-wielding species that interacted more widely with a fire-warming Earth. He introduced the term "pyric transition" to describe the subsequent phase change that occurred when humans began to burn fossil biomass (or what he calls "lithic landscapes") in place of surface biomass ("living landscapes"). Burning in living landscapes has a long evolutionary ecological checks and balances history. Burning fossil biomass lacks those baffles and barriers; the available sources overwhelm the sinks, unhinging air, seas, and terrestrial biotas. Both realms of combustion share an unbroken narrative of humanity's relationship to fire. Pyne has proposed the metaphor of a fire age – the fire-informed equivalent of an ice age to suggest the cumulative magnitude of these effects. The Pyrocene is thus a successor epoch to the <a href="Pleistocene" title="Pleistocene">Pleistocene</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Interpretations">Interpretations</h2></div>
<p>In the original conception of the term, Pyne advocated for a long Pyrocene that spans the entirety of the <a href="Holocene" title="Holocene">Holocene</a>. He acknowledges, however, that the evidence and case for pre-industrial global change through anthropogenic fire is only recently emerging.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most commentators reserve the term for a shorter Pyrocene era that begins with humanity's use of fossil biomass, which changed the use of fire in quantity and kind. Others have modified the concept to refer to that still briefer era of accelerated fossil-fuel burning after <a href="World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. Some consider it a feature best restricted to the 21st century with its eruption of serial conflagrations.
</p><p>Wildlife ecologist Gavin Jones and others have defined the Pyrocene as "the modern, human-caused era of extreme fire characterized by greater negative impacts to society and <a href="Ecosystem" title="Ecosystem">ecosystems</a> than in the past."<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This definition focuses on the more recent impact of human activity on <a href="Fire_regime" title="Fire regime">fire regimes</a>, including climate change and fire suppression activities. Jones has argued that fire is a key driver of <a href="Evolution" title="Evolution">evolution</a> and situated his research in the framework of the Pyrocene to investigate how species are evolving in response to more frequent and intense wildfires.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Likewise, Australian fire researcher Hamish Clarke has situated the Pyrocene specifically within the recent era of extreme fires exacerbated by changing populations and land use patterns.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Others have invoked Pyne's concept of the Pyrocene when discussing recent catastrophic wildfires but have interpreted it as a new era coming after the Holocene, and as an alternative concept to a short Anthropocene.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Interpretations that set the start of this era in the 21st century have suggested that the Earth has just begun to enter the Pyrocene and that the planet can escape an era defined by fire through actions such as the reduction of <a href="Greenhouse_gas" title="Greenhouse gas">greenhouse gases</a> in the <a href="Atmosphere" title="Atmosphere">atmosphere</a> and changes to land use practices, including a selective restoration of a second fire.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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