And we are back with the Anthropecene. What is the Anthropecene, you ask? And how do we affect it? How can we help? How can it change? Well these are good questions you may have over a topic that is very interesting and it was also what we have talked about this last week. All these points are great starts to this issue that we call our home. And how does that fit with deforestation you ask? Well we will explore that in a little. Right now lets just take it one step at a time. Let us venture onto this topic together now, shall we?
Anthropecene: an informal geologic chronological term for the proposed epoch that began when human activities had a significant global impact on the Earth's ecosystems.
So pretty much when humans started destroying the world that we live in and started cutting everything down to build things for us and all that kind of stuff is when everything started to go down hill.
There are three stages on how everything went down, according to some people. Stage one: regular growth. That is when everything was normal and we were advancing at a regular pace and everything still wasn’t that bad. Then we moved onto stage two which was right after World War 2, The Great Acceleration. This is when things started to get edgy. Everything went up really fast and we started doing all kinds of things to the environment and industrial revolution hit hard here too. This started causing the downfall of the environment and the rise of population, industries, and deforestation. The last stage is where we currently stand, 2015. We have three options in this last stage. Business-as-usual, with this we would just keep going as we were, not really change anything too much. Keep living life as we are. Or we could start mitigation, which is the futuristic flying cars, teleporting kind of stuff. Or lastly, geo-engineering. This sounds fancy but its not. If this happens then we will start fixing everything that we have messed up and the things we can but it eventually will not do anything. This is a baby step that will help us move along but not at a fast pace, which sometimes that is what we need, baby steps to keep us going.
In my opinion, I have a feeling we are going to keep inventing new things when maybe we need to slow that down a little and think about the old things we can fix and make better and think a little bit about the world we live in and the environments around us and help fix those before we keep inventing things for the future. That is the thing, things will break but the environment is always here for us no matter how much we mess with it and try and break it. That is our true home and we need to start realizing it so we can take care of it and help it live longer. For example, trees. They help us breath and if we keep cutting them down and using them for other things then soon we will not have anything providing us oxygen so therefore we will not need to keep inventing things because we will probably not be here anymore. With how many people that are on Earth, we need all the oxygen we can get.
I think that we will keep doing what we are doing (business-as-usual) and then it will come to a point where we will need to start fixing things even if it does not make that big of a difference (geo-engineering) because it is the thought that counts and if we are thinking about helping the world then maybe we can get other people to do the same thing so everyone can do it. Then lastly I am thinking that mitigation is going to happen. It will also happen throughout the other two but it will sky rocket here for sure. We have some brilliant people on our planet and they will keep inventing incredible things because they have the drive to. They will keep exceeding everyone’s expectations in a matter of time, so just sit back and wait for it to happen.
Well, the last of it has come to a conclusion about the Anthropecene. It is an incredible place to live and to watch grow, but just remember about those trees that help us live and what all we can do to help them live.
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