  (1) Results of analysis of new sets of anthropogenic data are presented. They
confirm earlier results of similar analyses. The expected and inevitable
massive deceleration of human-induced global change process is demonstrated as
an ongoing phenomenon. Human activities and impacts on the Earth System, while
in general remaining strong, are now systematically slowing down. (2) It is now
clearly stated, by supporters of the concept of the Great Acceleration, that
the so-called Great Acceleration is not acceleration and that this term is open
to misinterpretation. (3) There was no systematic sharp increase in
anthropogenic growth trajectories around 1950 CE (Common Era) or around any
other recent time. (4) Close inspection of data suggests that the Anthropocene
is not a geological epoch, but a historical event, also reflected as a
geological event. (5) The Anthropocene has no convincingly determinable
beginning. What is described as the Anthropocene appears to be an integral part
of a long process transcending the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs, a natural
continuation of the past developments of human interaction with nature. (6)
Using the concept of the Jinji unconformity, the embryonic beginning of human
(hominid) interaction with the environment could be placed at the time of the
first use of stone tools millions of years ago. Gradually the intensity of this
interaction was increasing and culminated monotonically in an event described
as the Anthropocene.
