SBU 102: Living in the Anthropocene
Other Information
Spring 2025
Updated 23 January 2025
This page will be used to provide links to materials other than readings,
which are linked from the syllabus page.
Links to all articles are here
A revelant opinion piece 'Now Is the Time of Monsters' by Ezra Klein in the New York Times, January 19 2025
- Anthropocene Magazine
- Welcome to the Anthropocene, a video
which opened the UN's Rio+20 summit on sustainable development.
- Plot of the Geological Eras. Source: http://www.anthropocene.info/assets/images/6-1.jpg
- Plot summarizing the Great Acceleration. Source: International Geosphere-Biosphere Program. Original and individual
panels here
- The Age of Humans. Smithsonian. A number of relevant readings and videos.
- 12 Risks that threaten human civilisation Global Challenges Foundation, 2/16/15.
- Technology at Work: The Future of Innovation and Employment A Citi Global Perspectives & Solutions report.
- NOAA space weather storm scales
- The xkcd view of global warming
- GISS presentation on 2016 temperatures NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 1/18/17
- Global and Regional Sea Level Rise Scenarios for the United States NOAA Technical Report CO-OPS 083, January 2017
- Global Trends: Paradox of Progress National Intelligence Council, January 2017
- Global Risks 2035: The Search for a New Normal M.J. Burrows, Atlantic Council, September 2016
- National Space Weather Action Plan National Science and Technology Council, October 2015
- National Space Weather Strategy National Science and Technology Council, October 2015
- Existential Risk: Diplomacy and Governance GLOBAL PRIORITIES PROJECT 2017, 1/23/17
- A review of Earth's Carrying Capacity UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service, June 2012
- A critical assessment of Global Climate Models, 2017
