"Welcome to the Anthropocene," a new video made for the Planet Under Pressure conference, maps every land and water transportation route on earth in an amazing three-minute journey through the last 250 years of human history.
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The narrated version tells how the 1750s Industrial Revolution, which spread from England across the globe, does not compare to the Great Acceleration, which began in the 1950s. Globalization, marketing, tourism and migration to cities fueled the greatest series of changes the planet's ever seen.
Humans now control three-quarters of land aside from the ice sheets. We move more rock than natural forces. We're losing biodiversity. We've made a whole in the ozone layer. Sea level is rising.
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"Humans have altered Earth's natural cycles and entered the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch dominated by humanity," the video says.
Both vidoes were created by Globaïa, a global education organization focused on environmental issues.
Though this new era may seem daunting, the video's message is hopeful that humans can redirect the planet's course of evolution.
This story originally published on Mashable here.
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