GEOG 3020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Industrial Revolution, Stromatolite, Coevolution
24 Jan 2018
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Many environmental scientists, geologists, palaeontologists and other would population levels, affluence (rate of resource use), and technological prowess had culminated to such a point that we can declare anthropocene definitively. Some scientists and philosophers are supporting the idea that human impact on earth is so significant that earth is so significant that earth looks entirely different, functionally and geologically, from previous time periods. Fundamental changes to earth(cid:495)s physical systems through time is usually. Paul crutzen (environmental scientist): credited with coining/popularizing. Quaternary period; it begin at the end of the last glacial epoch, about. Anthropocene markers reflect an additional key driver, that of human: they are also conservative given the current political context in which their science is conducted and communicated. Waters et al. weigh in on 2 dimensions of the debate underpinning. Anthropocene: over whether or not we are in the anthropocene. This answer is yes: having accepted one, they take on the debate over when the anthropocene began.
