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    Humanity's impact on the planet through activities like burning fossil fuels, intensive agriculture, and widespread pollution has been significant enough that scientists propose designating a new geologic epoch called the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene represents the period in which human activity has had dramatic effects like rapidly increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, accelerating the extinction of animal and plant species, generating huge amounts of plastic waste, and doubling nitrogen and phosphorus levels in soils through fertilizer use. Evidence of humanity's geological impacts can be found in sediment layers and glacial ice containing black carbon from fossil fuel burning.

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    Humanity's impact on the planet through activities like burning fossil fuels, intensive agriculture, and widespread pollution has been significant enough that scientists propose designating a new geologic epoch called the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene represents the period in which human activity has had dramatic effects like rapidly increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, accelerating the extinction of animal and plant species, generating huge amounts of plastic waste, and doubling nitrogen and phosphorus levels in soils through fertilizer use. Evidence of humanity's geological impacts can be found in sediment layers and glacial ice containing black carbon from fossil fuel burning.

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    Humanity's impact on the planet through activities like burning fossil fuels, intensive agriculture, and widespread pollution has been significant enough that scientists propose designating a new geologic epoch called the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene represents the period in which human activity has had dramatic effects like rapidly increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, accelerating the extinction of animal and plant species, generating huge amounts of plastic waste, and doubling nitrogen and phosphorus levels in soils through fertilizer use. Evidence of humanity's geological impacts can be found in sediment layers and glacial ice containing black carbon from fossil fuel burning.

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    Humanity's impact on the planet through activities like burning fossil fuels, intensive agriculture, and widespread pollution has been significant enough that scientists propose designating a new geologic epoch called the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene represents the period in which human activity has had dramatic effects like rapidly increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, accelerating the extinction of animal and plant species, generating huge amounts of plastic waste, and doubling nitrogen and phosphorus levels in soils through fertilizer use. Evidence of humanity's geological impacts can be found in sediment layers and glacial ice containing black carbon from fossil fuel burning.

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    THE

    ANTHROPOCENE LA TIERRA

    QUINO - ROBLES - SALOLOG


    PRE - ASSESSMENT
    Instruction: Read the statement and write TRUE if
    the statement is correct and FALSE if not.
    1. Geologic time is not easy to grasp mentally because
    of its magnitude.
    2. The story of the earth is written in the rocks.
    3. It is during Holocene epoch that man started to
    disturb the balance of nature.
    4. Ape man appeared and increased in number during
    Piliocene epoch.
    Introduction
    Humanity's impact on the planet has
    been profound. It is widely accepted
    that our species, has had such a
    significant impact on Earth and its
    inhabitants that we will have a lasting
    - and potentially irreversible -
    influence on its systems,
    environment, processes and
    biodiversity.
    Introduction
    From fire, intensive hunting, and
    agriculture, it has accelerated into
    rapid climate change, widespread
    pollution, plastic accumulation,
    species invasions, and the mass
    extinction of species-changes that
    have left a permanent mark in our
    planet.
    The story of the earth is written in rocks. Scientists
    have gradually deciphered the secrets by patiently
    "reading" the records.
    Earth’s History us divided into a hierarchal series of
    time, referred to as the geologic time scale.
    these divisions length of time, are called eons, eras,
    periods, epochs, and ages.
    These units are classified based on Earth’s rock
    layers, or strata, and the fossils found within them.
    WHAT IS ANTHROPOCENE?
    Anthropocene or the Anthropocene Epoch
    is an unofficial unit of geologic time, used
    to describe the most recent period in
    Earth’s history when human activity started
    to have a significant impact on the planet’s
    climate and ecosystems.
    WHAT IS ANTHROPOCENE?

    Anthropocene comes from the greek terms


    for Human (‘anthropo’) and new (‘cene’).
    To date, the Anthropocene has not been
    formally adopted into geologic timescale
    but has been gaining traction as a cultural
    concept.
    Evidence of Anthropocene
    Human activity has:
    01 Evidence #1

    Pushed extinction rates


    of animals and plants
    far above the long-term
    average. The Earth is on
    course to see 75% of
    species become extinct
    in the next few
    centuries if current
    trends continue.
    Evidence of Anthropocene
    Human activity has:
    02 Evidence #2

    Increased levels of climate-


    warming CO2 in the
    atmosphere at the fastest rate
    for 66m years, with fossil-fuel
    burning pushing levels from
    280 parts per million before
    the industrial revolution to
    400ppm and still rising today.
    Evidence of Anthropocene
    Human activity has:
    03 Evidence #3

    Put too much plastic in


    our waterways and
    oceans that microplastic
    particles are now virtually
    ubiquitous and plastics
    will likely leave identifiable
    fossil records for future
    generations to discover.
    Evidence of Anthropocene
    Human activity has:
    04 Evidence #4

    Doubled the nitrogen and


    phosphorous in our soils in
    the past century with
    fertilizer use. This is likely to
    be the largest impact on the
    nitrogen cycle in 2.5bn
    years.
    Evidence of Anthropocene
    Human activity has:
    05 Evidence #5

    Left a permanent layer of


    airborne particulates in
    sediment and glacial ice
    such as black carbon
    from fossil fuel burning.
    Evidence of Anthropocene
    Summary
    The earth has a long history and this is
    written in rocks. Many changes happened
    05
    during that period. Earth surface changes,
    living things disappear and new ones
    appeared. The changes that happen
    become the basis of dividing earth's history
    into eons, eras, periods, epochs, and ages.
    However many scientists argued that a new
    era must be added to the previous ones.
    According to them we are now in
    Anthropocene epoch. This is the period
    when human activities have big impact to
    our ecosystem and to the planet as a whole.
    THANK
    YOU!

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