I recently got in touch with Félix Pharand-Deschênes from GLOBAÏA. They create excellent 3D visualization and graphics, many of which feature the Earth. I'm a nut for seeing the big picture and understanding the world through a higher perspective, and I respect the work they do.
As a race, we humans are affecting the surface of our Earth much faster and drastically than nature. If we squeeze the Earth's history of 4.5 billion years into 24 hours, dinosaurs only appeared around 11pm (and ruled the Earth for 160 million years), the human race existed for less than a minute (modern man with say 10,000 years of recorded history only existed for about 0.2 second). Yet in this comparatively short period of existence, an estimated 75% of the Earth's surface has been reshaped by humans. Such significant global impact on Earth's ecosystems has lead scientists to coin the term "Anthropocene" to mark our current geological epoch - the Human Epoch.
Check out GLOBAÏA's cool visualization of how we as a race are affecting our planet since the Industrial Age to present day:
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