The Anthropocene and the Near Future

• This video describes how drastically things have changed on Earth over the last 100 years, the complicated problems we currently face, and what the term Anthropocene means.
• It discusses a variety of topics including fossil fuel use, agriculture, technology, and human population growth.
  

Positives

• This helps explain the complex and multifaceted solutions required to address the many global issues we face today.
• It discusses computing power, increasing complexity, the dark side of innovation, and atomic fission.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• It may be beneficial to pause the video to emphasize certain points or to check for understanding between topics.

Differentiation

• This is a great video to incorporate into science classes, social studies classes, or history classes because it discusses the environmental, social, and historical aspects of the global problems we currently face.
• Advanced students could discuss topics such as ecological carrying capacity, quality of life metrics, ethics regarding species extinctions, and "hoping" for a technological innovation to save us.
  
• Other resources on this topic include A Good Life for All Within Planetary Boundaries, Biodiversity and Humans, and this Table of Solutions to climate change.

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