The Anthropocene Flashcards
how did human imprint envolved over time
early humans
had some impact on the envioroment more localized (not global).
ex; we domesticate, fire became a big catalysis of this.
agriculture human
-local/regional impacts
-we started to deforestate forests to create space for agricultural spaces/soil
-not huge but still significant
advent agriculture
we were able to stay in a specific places
were able to trade food,growing
industrialization
we started to have movements, bigger disflorational (global force) and use of fossil fuel that started to impacted the atmosphere
global impact
the great accelaration
exponational trends in social-economic and earth system variables
when the human enterprise suddenly
accelerated
“Over the past 50 years, humans have changed the world’s
ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any other
comparable period in human history.
what factors drives the great accelaration
Expansion in the use of fossil fuels and corresponding CO2
emissions
increase consumption and technology
Great acceleration
in the 50’s that had a global impact
Anthropocene began
1800
Anthropocene
-start of significant global changes to the environment due to humans
-caused / was marked by expensasion in the use of fossil fuel
-in the anthropocene the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere incresed
co2 in the atmosphere
has incresed by a lot throught the years, higher then in the pass 3 million year probably due to fossil fuel use
other indicators of anthropocene
population
GDP/economy
population
has grown a lot but is probably gonna slow down
economy
have grow a lot faster then population
social economic and earth systms
both growed a lot, specially in the 50’s- after world war . it also globalization growed
