Data Visualizations

Welcome to the Anthropocene

Credit: Owen Gaffney and Félix Pharand-Deschênes. Welcome to the Anthropocene. 2012 Stockholm Resilience Centre / Future Earth / Globaia (CC BY 4.0)

A three minute journey through the last 250 years of human history, from the start of the Industrial Revolution, charting the growth of humanity into a global force on an equivalent scale to major geological processes.

Curated by Lea Rekow for BifrostOnline

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