To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:

• The Great Acceleration - the dramatic increase in human activity, largely since 1950, that is evident across a variety of socio-economic and biophysical measures, and that has made humans into a planetary scale force

• The Anthropocene - our current geological epoch (contested), beginning when humans first had significant impact on Earth's geology and ecosystems

• Hockey stick graph - typically refers to the Mann et al 1999 graph of Earth’s temperature, but can also refer to any trend that's roughly constant for a long duration and then has a drastic upwards shift

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