David Grinspoon Quote
Whatever you choose to measure, be it global population, the damming of rivers, increases in communication or transport technology, or the relentless spread of McDonald’s restaurants, the pattern is similar: a gradual but accelerating influence until about 1950. After that point, everything starts shooting exponentially off the charts, in the phenomenon known to scholars of the Anthropocene as the Great Acceleration. The next set of graphs here, from the same paper, shows different measures of the global-scale effect of all that increased human activity on various natural systems. Many
David Grinspoon
Whatever you choose to measure, be it global population, the damming of rivers, increases in communication or transport technology, or the relentless spread of McDonald’s restaurants, the pattern is similar: a gradual but accelerating influence until about 1950. After that point, everything starts shooting exponentially off the charts, in the phenomenon known to scholars of the Anthropocene as the Great Acceleration. The next set of graphs here, from the same paper, shows different measures of the global-scale effect of all that increased human activity on various natural systems. Many