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Mass Consumption More More More. The Anthropocene From Hunter-Gatherers to a Global Geophysical Force in just 10,000 years. Proxy Waveforms for Global.

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1 Mass Consumption More More More

2 The Anthropocene From Hunter-Gatherers to a Global Geophysical Force in just 10,000 years. Proxy Waveforms for Global Consumerism 1750 to 2000 Changing "Human Enterprise" Note the Great Acceleration around 1950 in rate changes.

3 Mass consumption looks like this Economics not sustainability awareness

4 Ocean Gyres Giant diffuse collection points of the plastic waste of humanity. Takes many years for individual bottle cap to find itself here.

5 The WalMart Express Cheap plastic crap here

6 Globalization Wave Form Factor of 10 Growth in just 25 years! This is the principle driver of Climate Change

7 Global Economic Meltdown  temporary blip 12% Annual Growth Rate last 3 years Need more Super Container Fleets and Ports to Scale

8 Shipping fleets gear up to serve more and more consumers

9 2013 Container Port Traffic; Asia Dominates

10 Non-Linear Scaling

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13 From IEA 2013

14 Power sector means “keeping the lights on” – replacing aging infrastructure; meet decarbonizing targets (mostly EU) to better accommodate renewables; new transmission and distribution grids;

15 Crank Turning Resource Scarcity Physical limits to per capita resource usage Increasing Global Inequity This ultimately is our Post WWII consumption legacy and its definitely driving the coming resource shortage - Is this the end state of E? Does E require consumption to reach its principles because increasing prosperity requires increasing consumption?


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