Jack Reichert

Anthropogenic — What Does THAT Mean?

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car exhaustWhen conversing with the “greenies” you may have come across the word “Anthropogenic” and wonder what it means…

anthropogenic |ˌanθrəpōˈjenik| is an adjective that describes something as a pollutant, chiefly environmental, that originates in human activity. So the CO2 from your car can be described as “Anthropogenic”, whereas the CO2 from your neighborhood Volcano is not.

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