POLD09H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Planetary Science, Industrial Revolution, Social Fact
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Climate change: and the end of life as we know it. There is nowhere else to go: the laws of physics are not biased towards sustaining human life on these historical processes. Life in brief: the earth is 4. 5 billion years old, life has existed on earth for around 3. 5 billion years, humans have been on earth for 200,00, the industrial revolution, which started climate change, happened only. 250 years ago: realization of problem 50 years ago. We have already done this: humans have already triggered processes past tipping points on the.
