It's Full of Stars

This isn´t exaclty about space science but it concerns all of us.

The Anthropocene is a recent and informal geologic chronological term that serves to mark the evidence and extent of human activities that have had a significant global impact on the Earth’s ecosystems. The term was coined by ecologist Eugene Stoermer but has been widely popularized by the Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen, who regards the influence of human behavior on the Earth’s atmosphere in recent centuries as so significant as to constitute a new geological era for its lithosphere (Wikipedia).

The image above, made by Globaia.org, is a map of global transport systems and urban areas. It gives us the idea of how big is the impact of human activities on the surface of Earth.

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