What is it?

Anthropocene in a way is a unit of time, it is used to describe the period within Earth’s history where human activity started to have a significant impact on the planets climate and ecosystems. This period is also sometimes known as the period of the great acceleration, things like carbon dioxide emissions and global warming that have significantly impacted our planet.

Plastic Pollution

One main key aspect of the world’s pollution is plastic, the earth is now awash with plastic with millions of tons being produced every year, plastic doesn’t biodegrade which ends up littering soil and ocean beds. Scientists are going as far to study if plastic is the peak of anthropocene, the golden spike.

Why would we explore the concept

Humans tend to be very sensitive about their actions, humans like to think that they are the alpha and always correct, so bringing out their flaws and confronting them tends to get a rise out of them mainly in a positive way. By embracing anthropocene we can show humans what they have created and just how significant the damage they are doing is, which in turn will hopefully embarrass them in a way causing them to alter their ways and become better people altogether. It was a collective of the whole population that created this mess, so we will need a collective of the whole population to reverse these effects’ and save our planet, one person at a time.