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      1 1 This introduction has benefited from the proofreadings and comments of Florent Champy, Pascale Metzger, Catherine Meur-Ferec, Alain Musset, Patrick Pigeon and Sébastien Roux. They are warmly thanked. Thanks also to Denise Pumain and Samuel Rufat for their valuable comments on the book as a whole.

      2 2 In the English language, however, it is usual to use a capital “A,” which does not prevent some authors from referring to the “Anthropocene” as an ontological moment (Clark and Yusoff 2017, p. 8), a broader conjuncture of ways of thinking, living, and doing the world, in the same way that we understand the Anthropocene moment in this book.

      3 3 Not capitalized in the French version of the book.

      4 4 In the absence of a “golden spike”, especially in the most remote geological ages, the boundary can be established by scientific consensus on the basis of less definitive stratigraphic evidence.

      5 5 As an assemblage of physical and human features involving different spatial scales.

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      Toward Unprecedented Risks?