“The Anthropocene Epoch is an unofficial unit of geologic time, used to describe the most recent period in Earth’s history when human activity started to have a significant impact on the planet’s climate and ecosystems.” Anthropocene is seen as how the world has changed through out the years and why it is changing, we have buildings and factories that have masses produced products. It also looks on how social media has changed society and their beliefs, its talks about how religion has changed and the idea of someone not being religious is normalised. Anthropocene is the talk of how us humans have impacted the world with all of our waste and rubbish and how we don’t take care of ourselves and most importantly the world itself. on google its says that “Humans Have Altered 97 Percent of Earth’s Land Through Habitat and Species Loss. A study published on April 15 in the journal Frontiers in Forests and Global Change presents evidence that only about three percent of Earth’s land ecosystems remain untouched by human activity.”
Our world has lost so much including animals loads of different animals have become extinct, humans have damaged the world by overpopulation, pollution, burning fossil fuels, and deforestation which lead to losing animals, for example, Western black rhinos, Dodo bird and many more. “Habitat loss is the primary cause of higher extinction rates. Other causes include habitat changes, over-exploitation of wildlife for commercial purposes, the introduction of harmful non-native species, pollution, and the spread of diseases.” Therefore humans are mostly to blame for animal extinction due to the fact that they over hunt, destroy animals homes and pollute the area which shows how careless humans can be, they don’t understand the dangers they are putting themselves and everyone else. Animal extinction is also due to current greenhouse gas emissions trajectories and if they continue animals will be extinct in 2050.
“The ‘good Anthropocene’ argument is founded on a belief in the ultimate benevolence of the whole, the order of things, a goodness that in the end transcends and defeats the structural obstacles, sufferings and moral lapses that seem to threaten it. That this belief is rarely voiced only bespeaks its secret power.”
This period is known as the great acceleration and it shows signs on how we humans have significantly modified our planet by harming it with plastic waste, many people have started to recycle but not enough to start saving the planet, no matter how desperate and big the message is to say that our world is dying , people wont do anything to change it.
“Under this model, the Anthropocene would have many events marking human-induced impacts on the planet, including the mass extinction of large vertebrates, the development of early farming, land clearance in the Americas, global-scale industrial transformation during the Industrial Revolution”