Modern Humans And The Existence Of The Planet

We are only a brief second in the long history of the universe; many things have preceded us to make us the most complex creatures that ever walked the Earth. We are a “new level of complexity” which makes us different from all other creatures that have come before us. Our species has only been around for 250,000 years, a short time compared to the formation of the Earth at 4.5 billion years ago and the creation of the Universe at 13.7 billion years ago, but the time we have had on this Earth has greatly affected the outcome of history. In an attempt to provide an overview of human history in his book This Fleeting World, David Christian introduces it in the context of the history of the universe and then systematically breaks it down

This Fleeting World is a small summary of ‘big history’. David Christian’s book is a mere 92 pages long with an included 9-page prequel (on topics during the first years without humans such as Earth’s creation and more) and 16-page appendix on the book’s use in school, historical periodization, and a 4-page list of sources. With around 120 pages, this short book seems to be the perfect size to represent how our species’ history is only miniscule fraction compared to the history of that around us. In a world that has been around for over four and a half billion years old (6) in a universe that is 13.8 billion years old (1), homo sapiens have been around for only approximately 250,000 of those years (9). It seems impossible, though, to fit those hundreds of thousands of years into the modest text. However, Christian does the impossible and makes a well written short ‘big history’. Where many other historians before him have failed at making one, Christian’s book, This Fleeting World, summarizes history from the big-bang all

The first is that humans needs and natures needs are two separate issues. The idea that they're not irrevocably intertwined is inane, because we want the environment to thrive so that we can continue to exploit it. The second misconception is our reliance on technological advances that may or may not happen to save the environment. This diamond implies is a foolish thing to do, as many monumental issues are all waiting to be fixed with technology that isn't coming, or that if it does ever come, it won't be an instantaneous thing. Third and finally, is the perception that those who fear for the environment are fear-mongers, doom-sayers, and rabble rousers. Their cries of warning falling on deaf ears because the effects of environmental damage has yet to reach the public. While the citizens of America may not feel the effects, there's a great many third world countries that do and are. Places where overpopulation and famine are rampant are prime spots for wars, terrorism, and emigration which then spreads the very same problems to other

We aren’t ready for the catastrophe we have caused. We, as a society, don’t know how to solve the issues. We keep applying more tape to matters that need new infrastructure. Our world is falling apart, but Mother Nature always knows how to fix it with a vengeance. Even though we won’t be around to see it, we are getting closer and closer to the next ice age to combat the global warming.

The environment is failing and about half of all today's species will be extinct by 2050 as said in Bill Nye and Ken ham debate at the creationist facility.

timeline of modern humans, Homo sapiens, and how long they have been in existence. According to mainstream science, popular belief holds that the history of our species is confirmed to be confined to the past 12,000 years. This figure is a culmination based on what we know about evolution and what we have been able to gather through fossil analyzation and dating of artifacts as well as human remains. Although the subject of human antiquity, also referred to as human origins, does not prompt a great deal of debate there may actually be the need for some. A reexamination of the notion that humans have only existed a mere 12,000 years should be considered as there may be evidence to support a much greater antiquity of modern human life. Alternative researchers have offered up evidence of “forbidden archeology” that contradicts the mainstream beliefs of human origins, however these discoveries seem to have been swept under the scientific rug.

Majority of the current, official geological time units have been dated and confirmed after the fact. Presently, humans are living in the Anthropocene and “the stratigraphic record is the past” (Finney and Edwards, 8). Finney and Edwards see this discrepancy as an issue because claiming the Anthropocene as part of the records appears as an attempt “to interpret past event’s in Earth’s history” without even having all the evidence (Finney and Edwards, 8). Moreover, the stratigraphic records and its units are studied using “stratigraphic techniques, concepts, and principles,” while the Anthropocene has been largely based on human observations (Finney and Edwards, 8). On the other hand, the Anthropocene has been analyzed using some of the stratigraphic techniques as well as how geological events have been measured through human observation and documentation. The Anthropocene is not portrayed as a geological event, but as a good candidate for a geological time unit. However, Finney and Edwards see the Anthropocene’s candidacy as a misunderstanding in what composes a geological time

Everyone has their opinion and it depends on a person and what they choose to believe or accept. Per the research of Geologic Time (radiometric) the Earth is about 4.600 billions years old. The bible said it’s

Unlike mass extinctions before this, “Unlike past mass extinctions, caused by events like asteroid strikes, volcanic eruptions, and natural climate shifts, the current crisis is almost entirely caused by us — humans.” The earth is currently experiencing its sixth mass extinction caused by human behaviour and this can be seen by assessing modern extinction rates due to human activity, human overpopulation and man-made climate

One day the earth will begin to quiver, it will then go into a full body shake and we will be eliminated from its surface. Much like a dog does when he's irritated by fleas. We were not the first species on this planet, and we will not be the last. Anyone believing we impact what this planet is doing or will do, holds themselves in much higher regard than does Gaia. A sudden rearrangement of the tectonic plates would form tsunamis moving on order of one thousand miles an hour. Then there would be the wind doing the same. Whipping at one thousand miles per hour shredding all life above the surface. And wouldn't you know it? This has happened before. Why do you think the story of Noah's flood can be found on every continent in every religion

The Anthropocene, a new geological epoch sounds new for a lot of people. It is an era which indicates the extreme impact of humankind or human-dominated on the earth. This epoch described by scholars that “Geological Era in which human activity has affected the geological flows and forces to such a degree that one can’t remove humans out of the equation” (qtd Steinmann 7). Scholars suggest that the significant impact of humankind intervention in the environment that accelerate the Anthropocene epoch to the peak contributed through mismanagement of the plastic waste, industrial waste particles dispersed on the planet and the release of carbon monoxide gas from large or small scale industries. Those and other non describes human’s mismanaged human activity on the environment is a reason for the unpredictable climate change, high sea level and other natural disasters all over the earth. All signs of the Antropocene era show that humans are able to destruct the environment or can participate in the developments of the environment.

According to astronomical research and geological evidence, scientist indicate the universe is approximately thirteen thousand eight hundred and twenty billion years old. The first link to humanity started with a primate group called Ardipithecus. While our ancestors have been around for about six million years, the modern form of humans only evolved about two hundred thousand years ago. The age of the Earth is estimated about four point fifty four billion years because that is the age of the oldest rocks with fossil evidence of life on earth. The oldest rocks on Earth found to date are the Acasta Gneisses in northwestern Canada near the Great Slave Lake, which are four point three billion years old. The study of the origin of life on Earth, more specifically abiogenesis, is the natural process of life arising from non-living matter. Life on Earth is believed to have began from organic compounds about three point eight to four billion years ago. Despite several competing theories for how life arose on Earth scientist only know when life first appeared on Earth and are still far from answering how it appeared. Since it is hard to prove or disprove them, no fully accepted theories of the origin of life exists.

One specific way that humans have begun the process of world extinction is through their incessant meddling with the environment. Not only do people destroy the environment with our wreckage and pollution, but the human race has introduced species into other ecosystems, causing massive repercussions. Referred to as invasive species, their introduction into a

Scientists calculate that without humans about one to five species would die a year, which is considered the background rate of extinction. But in our current society human activities are destroying many of the chances these animals need to survive. We as a planet are killing species at

Humans have existed on Earth for approximately 3.4 million years. The oldest known human ancestor is "Lucy," an Australopithecus. Over this extensive period of time, humans have evolved significantly. Homo Sapiens have grown from 3 to almost 6 feet (average), lost most of the body hair, became leaner and adapted to walking. Humans have come a long way, from Australopithecus to Homo sapiens, from living in trees to living in cities. Slowly, through hundreds of thousands of years, we mutated over and over again, natural selection ensuring that no destructive mutations continue. From the slow evolution, four distinctive species emerged and died out, each giving way to its ' descendant: Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus, Homo Sapiens Neanderthalesis, and Homo sapiens Sapiens.