The Anthropocene is Earth's current geologic era where humans now have an immense influence over the biosphere. It's a minuscule speck of time in the amazingly long history of our planet.
Due to the intensification of collective learning and the continued rise of complexity, more change has happened in the past century than in the previous 250,000 years of human history. |
The video to the right gives pros and cons of all this "progress," including environmental impact, changes in the way people live and work, and political changes and wars that come along with the modern world.
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Anthropocene and the Near Future
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Why scientists think we've entered a new chapter in Earth's history:
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ANTHROPOCENE
WARNING: LOW CONSCIOUSNESS EDITION