The Great Acceleration

To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: The Great Acceleration - the dramatic increase in human activity, largely since 1950, that is evident across a variety of socio-economic and biophysical measures, and that has made humans into a planetary scale force The Anthropocene - our current geological epoch (contested), beginning when humans first had significant impact on Earth's geology and ecosystems Hockey stick graph - typically refers to the Mann et al 1999 graph of Earth’s temperature, but can also refer to any trend that's roughly constant for a long duration and then has a drastic upwards shift MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://neptunestudios.info⁠⁠⁠⁠ If you like what we do, you can help us! - Become our patron: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth⁠⁠⁠⁠   - Buy our merch: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://dftba.com/minuteearth⁠⁠⁠⁠   - Buy our book: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://minuteearth.com/books⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Sign up to our newsletter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://news.minuteearth.com⁠⁠⁠⁠   - Share with your friends and family - Leave us a comment (we read them!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices