The Anthropocene tells of a period in human history where our choices have resulted in a global state that is responsive to all our actions, in a way where we can no longer ignore the implications of our many proclivities.
Newton's first law of inertia discourages sudden, large scale changes within a closed system or cycle. In time, energy transforms and ripples across from person to person, from the worlds of our minds and into the emerging mind of the world, which we have designated as: the apparent, the responsive, the ever constant shifting; 'real world'. When that law of motion is tested, the result is most likely, the extensive release of sudden energy and often cataclysmic change. Our role here has been defined by our awareness and actions within the communities among which find ourselves.
In 2016, scientists gathered to discuss the global catalysis that had been taking place since the end of the last ice age over 10,000 years ago, where glaciers might had grown as far as Chicago in the state of Illinois. They had come to decision that due to the magnitude of the growing human impacts on the environment, that we had historically entered a new period in geological time and that the true mark of the transition had been the release of the atomic bomb in 1950.
In today's economy, developing countries are supplying the economies of more industrialized countries across the globe in order to supply a growing population and a growing demand within a more urbanized setting. The expanding population of our species are just as impactful as our bad habits. Features of this global expansion has so far included the improper disposal of waste in addition to the generation of large quantities of hazardous materials. This kind of behaviour is comparable to a ruptured major blood vessel in that we have only a short time to diagnose the problem and implement necessary recovery techniques.
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