GregCocks, 5 months ago to geopolitics The Anthropocene Condition - Evolving Through Social–Ecological Transformations https://phys.org/news/2023-12-anthropocene-condition-evolving-socialecological.html <-- shared technical article https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0255 <-- shared paper / opinion piece [not my usual fare to post, but fascinating] #anthropocene #global #human #evolution #archaeology #ecology, #anthropology #evolutionary #culture #cultural #culturalintelligence #culturalpractices #culturalheritage #humanimpacts #population #fire #cooking #framing #agriculture #urbanisation #trade #trading #supplychains #economic #economys #humansociety #reshapetheplanet #anthroecology #ecosystems #climatechange #anthropogenic #extinction #pollution #environment #environmentalimpacts #socioecology photo - large limestone quarry graphic - A stylized depiction of long-term evolutionary patterns of transformative anthroecological change, highlighting major regime shifts in sociocultural niche construction, cultural, ecological and material inheritances, societal scales, energy use per capita and niche construction intensity (anthrome area per capita). The linear appearance of this chart is for illustrative purposes only; patterns of change in sociocultural evolution are nonlinear, nondeterministic, and more appropriately depicted as a tree with interconnected branches—as a fabric of coevolution. (GJ, gigajoules; GMO, genetically modified organisms; AI, artificial intelligence.) map - global - Anthropocene World - shows the land surface resized by its population overlaid with data related to human action and interaction on the planet. Each transformed grid cell in the map is proportional to the total number of people living in that area.
[not my usual fare to post, but fascinating] #anthropocene #global #human #evolution #archaeology #ecology, #anthropology #evolutionary #culture #cultural #culturalintelligence #culturalpractices #culturalheritage #humanimpacts #population #fire #cooking #framing #agriculture #urbanisation #trade #trading #supplychains #economic #economys #humansociety #reshapetheplanet #anthroecology #ecosystems #climatechange #anthropogenic #extinction #pollution #environment #environmentalimpacts #socioecology
photo - large limestone quarry graphic - A stylized depiction of long-term evolutionary patterns of transformative anthroecological change, highlighting major regime shifts in sociocultural niche construction, cultural, ecological and material inheritances, societal scales, energy use per capita and niche construction intensity (anthrome area per capita). The linear appearance of this chart is for illustrative purposes only; patterns of change in sociocultural evolution are nonlinear, nondeterministic, and more appropriately depicted as a tree with interconnected branches—as a fabric of coevolution. (GJ, gigajoules; GMO, genetically modified organisms; AI, artificial intelligence.) map - global - Anthropocene World - shows the land surface resized by its population overlaid with data related to human action and interaction on the planet. Each transformed grid cell in the map is proportional to the total number of people living in that area.