Names and Dates Flashcards
JM Blaut
Argues against environmental determinism as he believes it validates Euro-centrism
Jared Diamond
Argues for environmental determinism/ factors influential in development were environmental in his book ‘Germs guns and steel’
Paul Crutzen
Popularised the idea of the Anthropocene
Monastersky
Argues against the Anthropocene
Erlandson
Argues that the Anthropocene should be merged with the holocene
Lewis SL
The argues that the Anthropocene should be a new GE because
- Atmospheric changes
- Marine Sediments
Proposes that it should start in 1610 or 1961.
What are the potential dates for the start of the Anthropocene?
a) 50,000-10,000 years ago
b) 11,000-5,000 years ago
c) 1452
d) 1750
e) 1950
50,000 - 10,000 years ago
- Megafauna extinction - loss of 4% of all mammals
- Pleistoncene - use of fire
11,000 - 5,000 years ago
Introduction of largescale organised farming
1452
Collision of Old and New worlds (the Orbis Spike)
- dip of CO2
- mixing of biomes
- smallpox epidemic –> population decrease –> carbon decrease
1750-1880
Industrialisation
- increase of carbon dioxide
- 1800 = 280ppmv
1950
The Great Acceleration
- large dams
- fertilizers
- CO2
When was the pleistocene?
11700 to ~2.6 Ma ago
When was the holocene?
11700-present (debatably)
Arthur Tansley (1935)
came up with the idea of the concept of the ecosystem