Species Unbound: Humanity's Environmental Impact

The Anthropocene additionally enables us to rethink the connection amongst people and whatever is left of the normal world. Regardless of when it started, the idea of the Anthropocene is noteworthy. It features the size of our effect on Earth. By characterizing another epoch, we are announcing that the effect of our activities is worldwide and irreversible. It enables us to join various talks in regards to the condition of the planet, from environmental change to loss of biodiversity to natural degradation, by distinguishing the one thing they have in like manner; they have all been influenced by human impact.

An article “Anthropocene: Humanity has changed the Earth so much that it has entered a new epoch, scientists conclude “by Andrew Griffin on UK Independent news on Friday 8 January 2016, pointed out what happens to the Earth and how humans affect the environment.

Anthropocene refers to the start of a time where human influence on the earth’s ecological and geological state rapidly increased. This rapid increase is known as the “Great Acceleration” which takes place from the mid-20th century and continues on today. A push was made to distinguish this time from the previous epoch known as the Holocene period because of the dramatic impact that humanity is now having on the environment. The Anthropocene period is characteristically different because the changes in the ecological environment are being rapidly affected and changed due to human activity not purely natural means. While humans were active during the Holocene period they did not begin to affect their environment

The activities which humans engage in daily is rapidly increasing its impact on the environment. Anthropocene, being a term used environmentalists who look into the results of the future, this concept describes the present period we are in, compares it with the happenings of the past, and predicts what could occur in future. I totally agree that there is a change in our climate and ecosystem. For example, Will Steffen, in his lecture, Anthropocene: Where on Earth are We Going, deliberates on the hidden happenings behind these rapid changes (The Athropocene, 2015). The lecture also talks about the factors that lead to these changes, which also influences humans, such factors are environmental degradation and global warming among others,

Human and non-human agencies which influence the earth environment in Anthropocene epoch increases over a time. However, a collective action of humankind has a big countless impact on the environment change rather than the natural force in Anthropocene epoch. A negligent practice of an individual collectively drives the earth in the era of air pollution, earth quick, drought, and other much more natural disasters which make the earth unfriendly to live.

The human population has grown to be a species of consumers. We consume way more than we need too, slowly destroying our environment in the process. In the last thirty years, we have used more than thirty percent of the planet’s natural resources. Eighty percent of the planet’s original forests are now gone. In the United States, almost half of the waterways have become undrinkable. There is more carbon dioxide in our atmosphere today than there has been at any point in time in the last 800,000 years. Margaret Atwood very cleverly shows this consumer culture in her novel, Oryx and Crake. She shows how this consumer culture is bringing us, as well as our planet, to an end. In Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, the degradation of the environment

Like other stuff in history, human impact on the environment has alternated through time. The changes are actually dire from the era of foragers to the modern age. Foragers made alone insufficient impact on the environment. They tried their finest not to revision the world. They had attained their shelter, food, and clothing, entirely from the environment. Each group of foragers desired an extensive chunk of land because they were peripatetic. They did not stay in a particular area for a lengthy time. If they didn’t stay in a particular place for long, they could’ve not done a lot of devastation to the environment (p.10). Also their living standards were a lot smaller than our living standards now. For one thing, they devour much less than

“Humanity’s terrifying impact on Earth justifies new Anthropocene epoch” is the title of an article published in the Guardian newspaper in October 2014, the purpose of this essay is to assess if this statement was and is true.

An Eco-modernist manifesto states that we need a good Anthropocene, which “demands that humans use their growing social, economic, and technological powers to make life better for people, stabilize the climate, and protect the natural world” (Page 7). In order to protect the natural world, we should stay away from nature and give more land back to the nature world, instead of letting human society goes along with nature in harmony. The new technologies would allow us to achieve much more from a limited amount of land. Thus, “humans have the opportunity to re-wild and re-green the Earth” (Page 14) and will achieve a great Anthropocene.

it's been argued that the carrying capacity of Earth is drastically smaller than the demands placed on it with the aid of large numbers of human populations. And overuse of natural assets regularly effects in nature’s degradation.

One negative effect humans have had on Earth is climate change. Over the years, Earth’s temperature has been gradually increasing, and if it continues to rise the outcome could be fatal for every living organism on Earth. Humans, animals, and plants are all at risk. There are many factors that cause climate change one of which is the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect is the processes in which radiation from Earth’s atmosphere warms it’s surface to a higher temperature than it would be without the atmosphere. Humans have strengthened the greenhouse effect by the combustion of fossil fuels. This is because the combustion of fuels causes an excess of carbon dioxide to linger into the atmosphere. If the temperature rises too much habitats may become destroyed and unsafe for life, resulting in species of animals becoming

There are many viewpoints and opinions on topics such as global warming and the role the human race plays in damaging the environment. With that being said, it seems as if often times there are many dead end questions about what causes these things and what some solutions may be. On the other hand some people believe these issues do not actually exist. The fact of the matter is, these many issues are very real but there are many solutions if the human race is willing to pursue them.

“Many people today assume mistakenly that the Earth is so big that we humans cannot possibly have any major impact on the way our planet’s ecological system operates” (Al Gore in An Inconvenient Truth, by Al Gore). Former Vice President Al Gore made a documentary movie called, “An Inconvenient Truth.” He talks about how global warming is affecting our way of life and how it is affecting the Earth. He mentions facts about the misconceptions that surround global warming, which is very surprising to see and hear that our Earth is being affected by the things we do in our every day lives. With the facts from the movie and what we have learned in class about the climate changes, I believe that in time it will affect our life, if we do not change it now.

Humans are greatly impacting our environment today. These impacts are both for better and for worse, but, unfortunately they are mainly for worse. Because of humans, there are countless issues for the environment, including deforestation, global warming, and water pollution. Each of these problems have created a huge and negative outcome on the environment, different animals, and the Earth’s ecosystem. However, science is being used to address these problems and to help resolve these issues.

About 200 years ago, a wave of modernization and industrialization began and spread across the planet. A few decades later, from the beginning of the second half of the 20th century, global changes were measurable. This marked the beginning of the “Anthropocene”, and era where human activity became a force affecting the Earth’s natural cycles.