A Short History of the Anthropocene

Jason M. Kellyjaskelly@iupui.

edu

A Brief History of the Anthropocene

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2000 and 2010http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/world/road-to-rio/satellite-photos-urban-sprawl/index.html

How can we summarize 250 years of history?

Hans Rosling “200 years, 200 countries, 4 minutes”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jbkSRLYSojo

NOVA. Population Densities through Time. World in Balance (PBS).http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance

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NOVA. Population Densities through Time. World in Balance (PBS)http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance

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NOVA. Population Densities through Time. World in Balance (PBS)http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance

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NOVA. Population Densities through Time. World in Balance (PBS)http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance

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NOVA. Population Densities through Time. World in Balance (PBS)http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance

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NOVA. Population Densities through Time. World in Balance (PBS)http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance

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NOVA. Population Densities through Time. World in Balance (PBS)http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance

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NOVA. Population Densities through Time. World in Balance (PBS)http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance

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NOVA. Population Densities through Time. World in Balance (PBS)http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance

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UN. The World at Six Billion. http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/sixbillion/sixbillion.htmhttp://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/sixbillion/sixbilpart1.pdf

Percentage of Earth’s Population by Region

“Trade in Silver and Other Commodities, 1650 – 1750,” Worlds Together, Worlds Apart

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Isa Hashimoto, "1945-1998." 2003http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjAqR1zICA0&feature=share&list=PLJC6XztkApXPD-OAj-RLIF8xBiXtXg9qr

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Gross domestic product (at purchasing power parity) per capita between 1500 and 1950 in 1990 International Dollars for selected nations, depicting data excerpted from Contours of the World Economy, 1–2030 AD. Essays in Macro-Economic History by Angus Maddison, Oxford University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-922721-1, p. 382, Table A.7.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maddison_GDP_per_capita_1500-1950.svg

Gross Domestic Product Per Capita

Vlachogianni, T. , & Valavanidis, A. (2013). Energy and Environmental Impact on the Biosphere Energy Flow, Storage and Conversion in Human Civilization. American Journal

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The Accidental Seahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otIU6Py4K_A&list=PLJC6XztkApXPD-OAj-RLIF8xBiXtXg9qr

World Dams since 1800http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=OR5IFcSsaxY&list=PLJC6XztkApXPD-OAj-RLIF8xBiXtXg9qr&index=5

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