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The Anthropocene - Coggle Diagram
The Anthropocene
Climate Change
Over the past millions of years the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has increased from 180ppm to 350ppm mostly due to humans excessive use of fossil fuels.
Scientists are saying that we must reduce emissions by 4.8 percent by 2050 or our climate will be severely warmed.
Plants and animals are moving northward; glaciers are melting; storms and
droughts are increasing in severity; and weather patterns are changing.
Species in Danger
The oceans are absorbing the extra CO2 which is making the water more acidic and increasingly more difficult for marine life to thrive. Fertilizer and Pesticide chemicals are contributing to the harming of the ocean as well by causing poisonous algae blooms.
We are currently in the midst of a mass extinction, and we have been for a long time. People have to change their ways soon or we could be a part of this mass extinction.
Over the next century it is estimated that about fifty percent of all species will have to face extinction or endangerment at some point.
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Going Forward
Scientists think that if we don't make significant changes to the way of life on Earth in 10 years, then there might not be a way to fix it.
James Lovelock theorizes that we have come to a point where we cannot recognize, or stop these climate changes.
People are going to continue with CO2 emissions for the foreseeable future and scientists are faced with the question of, when do we know we have reached a critical point in human influence on Earth? I think we have already reached that point based on all of this evidence.
Nuclear
If there were to be a nuclear fallout and multiple warheads were launched then the result would be a terrible nuclear winter because the debris launched into the atmosphere will block the sun's rays. This would be eerily similar to the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
In an attempt to see how long radioactive damage could last scientists tested sediment, mud, rocks in old nuclear test sites and found remaining radiation and chlorine from the 1960's testing. This goes to show just how long the damage from nuclear energy will last.
The US were the first to use atomic force on Nagasaki and Hiroshima to end WWII and many other countries have tested their own weapons because of this. Nuclear warheads can kill millions of people and irradiate the surface of the Earth.