Visualizing the great acceleration – part ii
2008 December 4
The New Scientist adapted graphs from Will Steffen’s and others 2004 Global Change and the Earth System: A Planet Under Pressure for their feature How our economy is killing the Earth.
The three graphs show
- first how various drivers of change have accelerated,
- how these human changes have driven change in the Earth system, and finally -
- when these graphs are combined the accelerating growth of human civilization’s impact on the planet is clear.
(click on graphs for larger versions)
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Have you got an update on these graphs?
No. There would be very little difference w/ ~5yrs more data on graphs with 100-500 yr x-axis. I expect the next big global assessment will have some kind of update or an IGBP synthesis project.