The Anthropocene : restore the defaults
Holocene is the name given to the last 11,700 years, the time since the end of last major glacial epoch or The ice age. The Anthropocene is the proposed current geological epoch. A time when humans exert significant influence over the earth’s bio-geologic system. The global human population has grown from 1 billion in 1800 to 7.8 billion in 2020. It is still growing by around 83 million people annually. The UN projects that without action to slow population growth, global population will reach between 9.4 to 10.1 billion in 2050. Millions of people live in the Arctic, but Antarctica has no permanent inhabitants. But even the relatively untouched expanse of Antarctica has not been immune to the effects of climate change. And the Arctic, in addition to climate change, has suffered from pollution, development by the oil and gas industry, and overfishing. Above anecdote reflects one of the devastation caused by Anthropocene. This essay further talks ...