The Anthropocene - Crutzen and Stoermer

ucla | Environ M30 | 2023-04-04T10:23

Definitions

The epoch dictated by significant human change on the Earth
can be seen with the shared hockey stick graphs of socio-economic impact and global metrics (green house gasses, ocean acidification, climate change)

Many viewpoints:
- 8000 y.a. - with agriculture
- 15th cent. - with colonization
- 18th cent. - with industrialization
Really looking at it - with globalization post WW2 ca. 1950s

Many viewpoint - bad and good
- dictated by the negative impact off humanity’s actions on earth - climate change, etc.
- Others say its good - a moment of taking action and changing our negative impacts
negative viewpoint is dominant due to significance of climate change
tries to move the viewpoint of environmentalism to the current effects of humans on the world → gives humans exceptionalism (environmentalists push back against this viewpoint)
activists question the “we” of Anthropocene as collectively underrepresenting the effects between global north and south on the environmental impact (north - US, Europe; south - Asia, Pacific south)
mostly a global north movement - not very influential in East Asia, Latin America - suggested due to cultural differences

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