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37. The short film of a circumnavigation of Earth by the International Space Station astronauts is a must-see: http://vimeo.com/32001208.
38. Karen C. Seto et al., “Global forecasts of urban expansion to 2030 and direct impacts on biodiversity and carbon pools”, PNAS, August 16, 2012 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3479537/.
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44. Jan Zalasiewicz, in Nina Möllers and Christian Schwägerl, “Anthropozän Natur und Technik im Menschenzeitalter,” catalog for the eponymous exhibition at the Deutsches Museum, Munich, 2014.
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46. As a visual aid, see also James Syvitski, “Humanity’s Planet: Dams in the US 1800–2003,” on YouTube.com.
47. Bruce H. Wilkinson, “Humans as geologic agents: A deep-time perspective,” Geology, vol. 33, no. 3 (November 2004): 161–164 http://geology.geoscienceworld.org/con-tent/33/3/161.abstract.
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49. James Syvitski and A. Kettner, “Sediment flux and the Anthropocene,” op. cit.
50. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), “The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture,” Rome, 2012, http://www.fao.org/docrep/016/i2727e/i2727e00.htm.
51. FAO and World Bank, The Sunken Billions. The Economic Justification for Fisheries Reform, Rome/Washington DC, 2008.
52. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), “The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture,” Rome, 2012, http://www.fao.org/docrep/016/i2727e/i2727e00.htm.
53. Tony Barboza, “No ‘island’ of tsunami debris floating toward US, NOAA says,” Los Angeles Times, November 6, 2013, http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-tsunami-debris-noaa-20131106,0,3159522.story.
54. Matthew Hansen et al., “High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st Century Forest Cover Change,” Science, 15 November 2013, vol. 342, no. 6160: 850–853 and Betsy Mason, “Incredible High-Resolution Interactive Map of the World’s Shrinking Forests,” Wired Online, November 14, 2013, http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/11/google-earth-deforestation/.
55. Jianchu Xu, “China‘s new forests aren’t as green as they seem,” Nature, vol. 477, 371, (September 21, 2011).
56. Michael Heckenberger et al., “Amazonia 1492: Pristine Forest or Cultural Parkland?” Science, vol. 301, no. 5640 (September 19 2003):1710–1714, DOI: 10.1126/science.1086112.
57. Erle Ellis and Navin Ramankutty, “Putting people in the map: anthropogenic biomes of the world,” Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, vol. 6, no. 8, (2008): 439-447 and Erle Ellis and Navin Ramankutty, “Anthropogenic biomes,” Encyclopedia of Earth, Cutler J. Cleveland (ed.), Washington, DC, 2009.
58. See personal website of the artist www.david-thomas-smith.com.
59. International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook 2012, Paris: IEA, 2012.
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61. For a graphic representation of CO2 emissions, see the Oxford University project at http://trillionthtonne.org.
62. UNESCO and UNEP, The Global Carbon Cycle, Paris: UNESCO, November 2009.
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