Most notably and lastingly, a less obvious power shift has taken place: from Ed Balls to Ed Miliband.
So it may be that a "good Anthropocene", stable and productive for humans and other species they rely on, is one in which some aspects of the Earth system's behaviour are lastingly changed.
More lastingly, it made possible the success that Spain has enjoyed on almost every front during the past 30 years.Special report The second transition From A to Z Oh, to be in Europe To market, to market?
First, the north-east has gained greatly from the low inflation seen temporarily in 1986, and lastingly since 1994; high inflation hit it disproportionately, because the purchasing power of its many poor people was ill-protected by Brazil's old indexation systems.
But the big question is whether it has created an environment in which pragmatism can lastingly flourish.
Her brief imposition of dictatorship was the culmination of policies that lastingly weakened India's institutions and regions and promoted rule by dynasty.These giants seem to illustrate the cliché that India is a land of polarities: the Mahatma ("great soul") held India to impossible ideals; Madam (as women in authority are called) imposed on it a bleak reality.
To think that the workings of so vast an entity could be lastingly changed by a species that has been scampering across its surface for less than 1% of 1% of its history seems, on the face of it, absurd.
Although the stock of embattled politicians can evidently go up as well as down, that still seems unlikely; but the election will probably not come before 2010, by which point a recession will have intervened, with unpredictable consequences.The pressing question is whether Mr Brown can become a lastingly effective prime minister.
Inaction by central banks could ratify decisions both by businesses to lastingly shrink the economy's productive capacity, and by investors to avoid risk and prefer cash.
They ruled from Aleppo until they were absorbed by the Fāṭimids after 1004; at their court some of Islamdom's most lastingly illustrious writers found patronage.
The 5th Army was checked temporarily on the Volturno River, only 20 miles north of Naples, then more lastingly on the Garigliano River, while the 8th Army, having made its way from Calabria up the Adriatic coast, was likewise held on the Sangro River.
