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Jason M. Kelly jaskelly@iup ui.edu A Brief History of the Anthropocene Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2000 and 2010 http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/world/road-to-rio/satellite-photos-urban-sprawl/index.html

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Jason M. Kellyjaskelly@iupui.

edu

A Brief History of the Anthropocene

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2000 and 2010http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/world/road-to-rio/satellite-photos-urban-sprawl/index.html

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How can we summarize 250 years of history?

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Hans Rosling “200 years, 200 countries, 4 minutes”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jbkSRLYSojo

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NOVA. Population Densities through Time. World in Balance (PBS).http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance

0 CE

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NOVA. Population Densities through Time. World in Balance (PBS)http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance

1000 CE

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NOVA. Population Densities through Time. World in Balance (PBS)http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance

1800 CE

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NOVA. Population Densities through Time. World in Balance (PBS)http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance

1927 CE

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NOVA. Population Densities through Time. World in Balance (PBS)http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance

1960 CE

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NOVA. Population Densities through Time. World in Balance (PBS)http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance

1974 CE

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NOVA. Population Densities through Time. World in Balance (PBS)http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance

1980 CE 5

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NOVA. Population Densities through Time. World in Balance (PBS)http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance

1999 CE

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NOVA. Population Densities through Time. World in Balance (PBS)http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance

2050 CE

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UN. The World at Six Billion. http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/sixbillion/sixbillion.htmhttp://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/sixbillion/sixbilpart1.pdf

Percentage of Earth’s Population by Region

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“Trade in Silver and Other Commodities, 1650 – 1750,” Worlds Together, Worlds Apart

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20001700 18501775 1925Great Divergence

Great Acceleration

Humanity and the Anthropocene

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20001700 18501775 1925Great Divergence

Great Acceleration

Humanity and the Anthropocene

Green Revoluti

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New Imperialism

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Gross domestic product (at purchasing power parity) per capita between 1500 and 1950 in 1990 International Dollars for selected nations, depicting data excerpted from Contours of the World Economy, 1–2030 AD. Essays in Macro-Economic History by Angus Maddison, Oxford University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-922721-1, p. 382, Table A.7.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maddison_GDP_per_capita_1500-1950.svg

Gross Domestic Product Per Capita

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Vlachogianni, T. , & Valavanidis, A. (2013). Energy and Environmental Impact on the Biosphere Energy Flow, Storage and Conversion in Human Civilization. American Journal

of Educational Research, 1(3), 68-78.

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20001700 18501775 1925Great Divergence

Great Acceleration

Humanity and the Anthropocene

Green Revoluti

on

1st Industrial Revolution

2nd Industrial Revolution

Old Imperialism

New Imperialism

Postcolonialism

Global War

Agricultural

Revolution

GE

OPO

LITIC

AL

SO

CIO

EC

ON

OM

IC

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ns

BIO

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smEnvironmenta

lism

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Atomic

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Finance Capitalism

IndustrialMonocultu

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The Accidental Seahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otIU6Py4K_A&list=PLJC6XztkApXPD-OAj-RLIF8xBiXtXg9qr

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World Dams since 1800http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=OR5IFcSsaxY&list=PLJC6XztkApXPD-OAj-RLIF8xBiXtXg9qr&index=5

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20001700 18501775 1925Great Divergence

Great Acceleration

Humanity and the Anthropocene

Green Revoluti

on

1st Industrial Revolution

2nd Industrial Revolution

Old Imperialism

New Imperialism

Postcolonialism

Global War

Agricultural

Revolution

GE

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LITIC

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EC

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OM

IC

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smEnvironmenta

lism

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Oil

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Agrochemical

Revolution

Steamship

Atomic

Engineering Geology

African Diaspora

Fiscal-military state

Finance Capitalism

IndustrialMonocultu

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