The Anthropocene is coming! The quality of man-made products surpassed the global biological quality for the first time. What does this mean?

Ten thousand years ago, man began to make man-made substances.

Speaking of the appearance of human beings, we all know that it has a history of millions of years. However, few people know that the influence and destruction of human beings on the earth actually began 10 thousand years ago. So, what happened to mankind ten thousand years ago? The answer is that mankind bid farewell to the Paleolithic Age and entered the Neolithic Age.

The Neolithic Age is also called the first agricultural revolution in human history. It happened ten thousand years ago. According to textual research, at that time, the earth was at the end of the ice age, and the earth, which had recovered and warmed up, suddenly ushered in a thousand years of late spring cold.

At that time, many people on the earth died because of this sudden change in climate and environment. Survivors tried to collect wild seeds such as wheat and sow them in the land, and human beings began a conscious and spontaneous primitive farming stage.

Therefore, the way of life of human beings has changed. The emergence of agriculture has made human beings settle down, forming tribes and even villages and cities, and animal husbandry has also developed. Although the agricultural society lasted for a long time, this is the first time that modern humans have made "artificial substances" on the earth.

In order to obtain fertile land that can be used for agricultural production and building houses, human beings began to burn wasteland and expand land on a large scale 10 thousand years ago. Since then, human beings have entered the industrial era from the agricultural period to the highly information-based era. The researchers said that through research, they found that the biomass on the earth has doubled in the past 10,000 years.

Take plants for example. Ten thousand years ago, the biomass of plants on the earth was 2 trillion tons, but today, there are only 65.438+0 trillion tons left in ten thousand years, and the quality of man-made products is also accumulating, and the balance between human beings and the earth's ecology is also broken in this process of accumulation.

So, what is an artificial substance? Everything made by human beings is artificial as long as it is not naturally produced in the natural environment. The house we live in and the food we eat can be said that life is full of artificial substances. The emergence of man-made substances has greatly reduced the natural biomass, but also left the earth riddled with holes.

The earth entered the Anthropocene?

Where did the Anthropocene begin? It is believed that the Anthropocene began in the18th century when mankind entered the industrial revolution. However, some scholars believe that this is also the time when the Anthropocene officially appeared when humans entered the agricultural era 10,000 years ago.

However, the emergence of the Anthropocene does not mean that human beings are really the absolute masters of the earth. Although the quality of man-made products on the earth today has exceeded the natural biomass, some researchers say that the Anthropocene may be the beginning of human extinction because of the destruction of the earth's climate and environment by human activities.

Why do you say that? The first is the utilization of resources on the earth. As we all know, the Carboniferous period 280 million years ago was a period of massive accumulation of traditional resources such as coal on the earth. However, it took only a few hundred years for human beings to gradually use these accumulations for exhaustion.

Therefore, when humans enter the 2 1 century, they will look for new energy, in addition, they will also carry out alien mining, hoping to obtain resources from the universe that can be used by human beings. This is only one aspect of the earth's geological changes. What really threatens mankind is global warming, and the greenhouse effect makes the earth worse. This problem is also a top priority for mankind.

Maybe some friends will say that human beings only need to leave the earth and emigrate to other planets in the future, but it is not easy. Taking the migration to Mars as an example, it may not be realized for hundreds or even thousands of years, because it still needs to be transformed.

Researchers say that in 2020, the quality of man-made goods on the earth will exceed the total quality of global organisms for the first time. In fact, this is only the beginning. About 2040, that is, in another 20 years, at that time, the mass of man-made things may be three times that of biomass, reaching 3 trillion tons.