Anthropocene Epoch
Technology
International Relations
Political
Miscellaneous
Environment
Culture
Governmental Systems
Natural Disasters
Relationships with friendly societies
Relationships with hostile societies
How people interact
Army/ Defense
Having Resources
Water
Food
A positive relationship between governments and the public
Equal opportunities among classes
Education
Jobs
More industrialization than in prior epochs
"Plants and animals are moving northward..." (Anthropocene Reading PDF)
"Multiple deployments could annihilate millions of people..." (Anthropocene Reading PDF)
Countries have nuclear weapons that can potentially annihilate millions of people
Countries have nuclear weapons that can be used against other countries.
At this point, people can not realistically change things, for they could only adapt.
Man-Made Destruction to the Environment
"Other candidates include plastic pollution, aluminium and concrete particles..." (The Anthropocene epoch: scientists declare dawn of human-influenced age)
"... high levels of nitrogen and phosphate in soils, derived from artificial fertilisers." (The Anthropocene epoch: scientists declare dawn of human-influenced age)
Guardian Article
The actions of humans are making certain places extremely difficult for certain species of plants and animals to survive. This forces those species that are affected to relocate to an environment of which allowe=s them to continue to survive.
"Multiple deployments could annihilate millions of people and send large-scale debris up into the atmosphere, blocking the Sun's rays long enough to produce a 'nuclear winter' that would be as destructive to life as the asteroid of 65 million years ago that wiped out the dinosaurs." (Anthropocene Reading PDF)
Humans' access to nuclear weapons poses a threat to the environments of which these countries choose to target with the weapons. Aside from just posing a threat to the environment, these weapons can obliterate millions of people.
Technology helped to increase the speed of the rapid industrialization.
Humans drive cars, of which emit gases that are harmful to the state of the Earth's atmoshphere.
Humans really on water, for it is a necessity and, without it, humans can die of dehydration.
Food is an essential resource to humans, for, if tey had no food, they are threatened by the risk of starvation
Having a stable government is important in this regard because, without a government that is willing to form alliances with other countries, we can be seen as an enemy and, thus, a target of other countries' nuclear weapons.
Having an army that has access to nuclear weapons makes other countries less eager to become enemies with that country, due to the threat that those weapons can pose against their enemies.
"'One criticism of the Anthropocene as geology is that it is very short,' said Zalasiewicz. 'Our response is that many of the changes are irreversible.'” (The Anthropocene epoch: scientists declare dawn of human-influenced age)
"Multiple deployments could annihilate millions of people..." (Anthropocene Reading PDF)
"Multiple deployments could annihilate millions of people..." (Anthropocene Reading PDF)