Altering our surroundings is fundamental to human survival. In this light, how may we come to alter the world that we've created in a conscious and productive way?
Community and global collaboration, along with innovation, will be the keys to creating a new path for the future of our species and our environment. By looking at the Anthropocene from a human origins viewpoint, the narrative of our collective humanity and the qualities that unite us as a species with a common origin can give us a sense of communal purpose in developing solutions for the problems of the Anthropocene.
These are some of the many questions that we must answer as we begin to craft the future of the Anthropocene:. Contemplating these questions will help us begin to determine the future of the Anthropocene. The themes of self-determination, community, and action will all be parts of the human-driven innovation for the future of the planet.
As we look to the future, we will see not only the planet change, but we may even see changes in ourselves as a species. We invite you to contemplate: What will it mean to be human in the future of the Anthropocene? Smithsonian Statement on Climate Change. What is the Anthropocene and Are We in It? Living in the Anthropocene: The Age of Humans.
About the Image of Earth at Night. Images of the Present-Day Anthropocene. Skip to main content. What is the Anthropocene? As of , humans had built so many dams that nearly six times as much water was held in storage as flowed freely in rivers. A visual representation of the breakdown of geological time.
The Anthropocene would come after the Holocene. The sharp upward spike in all of the trends displayed on this graph show how human activity has increased since the Great Acceleration. Human pollution shows the impact of the Anthropocene on many issues. It destroys natural landscapes and poses a critical danger to many animals who may consume or become entangled. Smog in the Forbidden City in Beijing, China.
Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Access to cell phones and the internet have allowed humans to connect to and communicate with people around the globe nearly instantaneously.
Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons. The layers of sediment visible on this hillside in the Rift Valley of southern Kenya illustrate change in the environmental conditions faced by human ancestors around 1 million years ago. These objects found in Africa illustrate the many thousands of clues discovered about human origins, including use of tools and symbols, increasing brain size, and footprints indicating walking upright.
The International Space Station launched its first piece Nov. The first humans to start the continuous occupation included Expedition 1 members Bill Shepard U. Then it has doubled again, in 50 years to the present 7 billion. Quadrupling in a little over years. Just doubling of human population had taken one thousand year periods up until the 20th Century.
Industrialization including the Haber process — creating the Green Revolution — is the cause. Today, industrialization and advanced technology is now idling millions of young humans leading to the violence we see. The sudden connectivity — bringing all humans into close cultural contact has stressed many cultures not prepared to adjust and tolerate diversity. Homo erectus became the first direct human ancestor to leave Africa, and the first to display evidence of using fire.
Homo habilis was likely driven to extinction more than a million years ago, as was the last Australopithecus. Across the world, new examples of the genus Homo emerged, including Homo antecessor in Europe which may be an evolved habilis or erectus, or an early form of heidelbergensis about 1. Approximately , years ago, the earliest evidence for cooking appears; about , years ago, the first evidence for clothing appears.
The oldest fossil remnants of Homo sapiens now date back to ,, years ago, and were This find, dating back to only , pushes back our species' origin earlier than the development of the Neanderthals, and suggest that we didn't evolve only in East Africa, as previously believed. Approximately , years ago, the first Homo sapiens — anatomically modern humans — arose alongside our other hominid relatives. It is unknown whether we descended directly from Homo erectus, heidelbergensis, or antecessor, although Neanderthals, which came slightly later at , years ago, most certainly came from Homo heidelbergensis.
Modern speech is thought to have arisen almost as soon as Homo sapiens did. It took Yet, in that short time, we've managed to figure out the entire cosmic story that led to our existence. Fortunately, the story won't end with us, as it's still being written. Evolutionarily speaking, human beings - or homo sapiens - have been around for a cosmic Based on how evolution works, it is unlikely there will be any humans left even just a few million years from now.
This is a BETA experience. You may opt-out by clicking here. More From Forbes. Nov 10, , pm EST. Nov 9, , pm EST. Nov 9, , am EST. Edit Story. May 15, , am EDT. Ethan Siegel Senior Contributor. Homo sapiens migrated from East Africa in waves, around 7, years ago the species reached the southern coast of Asia then to Oceania 50, years ago and finally reached Europe forty thousand years ago. About 20, years ago, the northern Eurasian population migrated to the Americas.
Canada and Greenland were inhabited 4, years ago while Polynesia was inhabited 2, years ago. The evolutionary process led to modern humans. Victor Kiprop January 12 in World Facts. Olympic Games History. Southeast Asian Countries. Commonwealth Of Independent States.
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