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Anthropocene - Coggle Diagram
Anthropocene
Climate Change
Climate change has numerous unnatural effects on the Earth, including plants and animals moving northward, glaciers melting, droughts and storms becoming more severe, and weather patterns changing.
Caused by an excess amount of greenhouse gasses such as CO2, which is caused by humans.
Even though they are supposed to be lowering the concentration of these gasses, humans have only increased their production (information from 2011).
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The ocean
Over fishing by humans also affects the oceans and the rate in which populations of animals are decreasing.
Runoff from fertilizer and pesticides also contribute to this and causes strange, harmful algae to grow.
CO2 gets absorbed by the water making it more acidic; this threatens the life of numerous plants and animals.
Biodiversity on Earth
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It is declining 100 to 1,000 times the background rate (the normal rate of change).
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Synthetic Drugs
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Humans use hydrogen for fertilizer and add it to the soil unnaturally (only some plants can fix nitrogen).
Humans are disturbing the Earth's natural nitrogen cycle, and they have no idea what this might do to the Earth and the plants and animals within it.
Nuclear Energy
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Multiple deployments of nuclear bombs could annihilate millions, and the gasses could cause a nuclear winter due to the blockage of the sun rays. (Just as destructive as the asteroid which killed the dinosaurs)
Radioactive signatures, chlorine from bomb testing and mercury from burning of coal exist in the newest layer of rock, which suggests that a new epoch has started.