Measures of Dispersion and Variability: Range, QD, AD and SD
A Short History of the Anthropocene
1. A Brief History of the Anthropocene
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2000 and 2010
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/world/road-to-rio/satellite-photos-urban-sprawl/index.html
Jason M. Kelly
jaskelly@iupui.ed
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3. Hans Rosling “200 years, 200 countries, 4 minutes”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jbkSRLYSojo
4. 0 CE
NOVA. Population Densities through Time. World in Balance (PBS).
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance
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5. 1000 CE
NOVA. Population Densities through Time. World in Balance (PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance
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6. 1800 CE
NOVA. Population Densities through Time. World in Balance (PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance
1B
7. 1927 CE
2B
NOVA. Population Densities through Time. World in Balance (PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance
8. 1960 CE
3B
NOVA. Population Densities through Time. World in Balance (PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance
9. 1974 CE
4B
NOVA. Population Densities through Time. World in Balance (PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance
10. 1980 CE
5B
NOVA. Population Densities through Time. World in Balance (PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance
11. 1999 CE
NOVA. Population Densities through Time. World in Balance (PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance
6B
12. 9B
2050 CE
NOVA. Population Densities through Time. World in Balance (PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance
13. Percentage of Earth’s Population by Region
UN. The World at Six Billion. http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/sixbillion/sixbillion.htm
http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/sixbillion/sixbilpart1.pdf
14. “Trade in Silver and Other Commodities, 1650 – 1750,” Worlds Together, Worlds
Apart
15. Humanity and the
Anthropocene
Atlantic
Revolution
s
GEOPOLITICAL
State Centralization/
Biological Old Regimes
Old Imperialism
SOCIOECONOMIC
New Imperialism
African Diaspora
1700
BIOLOGICAL
Eurasian
Revolution
s
Atlantic Migration
Great
Divergence
1st Industrial
Revolution
1775
Fiscal-military state
Canal
Global
War
1850
Trai
n
Postcolonialism
Cold
War
Great
Acceleration
1925
Finance Capitalism
2nd Industrial
Revolution
Steamship
Automobile
Air
Engineering Geology
Agricultural
Revolution
Biofuel
Industrial
Monoculture
Green
Revolutio
n
Agrochemical
Revolution
Coal
2000
Oil
Atomic
Sanitary
Regime
Pharmaceutical
Regime
Conservationism
6th Great Extinction
Genetic
Regime
Environmentalis
m
17. Humanity and the
Anthropocene
Atlantic
Revolution
s
GEOPOLITICAL
State Centralization/
Biological Old Regimes
Old Imperialism
SOCIOECONOMIC
New Imperialism
African Diaspora
1700
BIOLOGICAL
Eurasian
Revolution
s
Atlantic Migration
Great
Divergence
1st Industrial
Revolution
1775
Fiscal-military state
Canal
Global
War
1850
Trai
n
Postcolonialism
Cold
War
Great
Acceleration
1925
Finance Capitalism
2nd Industrial
Revolution
Steamship
Automobile
Air
Engineering Geology
Agricultural
Revolution
Biofuel
Industrial
Monoculture
Green
Revolutio
n
Agrochemical
Revolution
Coal
2000
Oil
Atomic
Sanitary
Regime
Pharmaceutical
Regime
Conservationism
6th Great Extinction
Genetic
Regime
Environmentalis
m
18.
19. Gross Domestic Product Per
Capita
Tex
t
Gross domestic product (at purchasing power parity) per capita between 1500 and 1950 in 1990 International Dollars for selected nations, depicting data excerpted from Contours of the World
Economy, 1–2030 AD. Essays in Macro-Economic History by Angus Maddison, Oxford University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-922721-1, p. 382, Table A.7.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maddison_GDP_per_capita_1500-1950.svg
20. Vlachogianni, T. , & Valavanidis, A. (2013). Energy and Environmental Impact on the
Biosphere Energy Flow, Storage and Conversion in Human Civilization. American Journal
of Educational Research, 1(3), 68-78.
21. Humanity and the
Anthropocene
Atlantic
Revolution
s
GEOPOLITICAL
State Centralization/
Biological Old Regimes
Old Imperialism
SOCIOECONOMIC
New Imperialism
African Diaspora
1700
BIOLOGICAL
Eurasian
Revolution
s
Atlantic Migration
Great
Divergence
1st Industrial
Revolution
1775
Fiscal-military state
Canal
Global
War
1850
Trai
n
Postcolonialism
Cold
War
Great
Acceleration
1925
Finance Capitalism
2nd Industrial
Revolution
Steamship
Automobile
Air
Engineering Geology
Agricultural
Revolution
Biofuel
Industrial
Monoculture
Green
Revolutio
n
Agrochemical
Revolution
Coal
2000
Oil
Atomic
Sanitary
Regime
Pharmaceutical
Regime
Conservationism
6th Great Extinction
Genetic
Regime
Environmentalis
m
23. World Dams since 1800
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=OR5IFcSsaxY&list=PLJC6XztkApXPD-OAjRLIF8xBiXtXg9qr&index=5
24. Humanity and the
Anthropocene
Atlantic
Revolution
s
GEOPOLITICAL
State Centralization/
Biological Old Regimes
Old Imperialism
SOCIOECONOMIC
New Imperialism
African Diaspora
1700
BIOLOGICAL
Eurasian
Revolution
s
Atlantic Migration
Great
Divergence
1st Industrial
Revolution
1775
Fiscal-military state
Canal
Global
War
1850
Trai
n
Postcolonialism
Cold
War
Great
Acceleration
1925
Finance Capitalism
2nd Industrial
Revolution
Steamship
Automobile
Air
Engineering Geology
Agricultural
Revolution
Biofuel
Industrial
Monoculture
Green
Revolutio
n
Agrochemical
Revolution
Coal
2000
Oil
Atomic
Sanitary
Regime
Pharmaceutical
Regime
Conservationism
6th Great Extinction
Genetic
Regime
Environmentalis
m
Hinweis der Redaktion
Scale up -- the problem is loss of human individual agency
What do we focus on?: trade, environment, population, technology, politics, culture?
Since Hans Rosling started us with population, let’s put it in a larger context
So, in all, we can see a significant global population boom that is generally constant and exponential during the anthropocene
We can see this same information to slightly different effect using a chart
--you’ll notice the devastating effects on Africa of the slave trade and imperialism
--you’ll also notice the devastation of the collapse of the Qing Empire, the civil wars that led up to it as well as the civil war and Sino-Japanese wars of the 1930s and 1940s
The early modern world was already a global world connected by
--trade (silver flow from Americas to Europe to Asia)
--migration (voluntary and forced)
--ecological exchange (flora, fauna, microbiological)
Cold War and Humans’ Imprint on Geological Strata
Great Divergence
--causes dispute (see H109 Lecture 5)
