{"id":44070,"key":"Welcome_to_the_Anthropocene","title":"Welcome to the Anthropocene","latest":{"id":1205288,"timestamp":"2025-11-27T15:17:58Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"In June 2012 the 3-minute film '''Welcome to the Anthropocene''' opened the UN's Rio+20 summit on sustainable development. The \"[[anthropocene]]\" refers to the geological era in which the earth is changed by humans.\n\nThe film is a journey through the last 250 years of our history, from the start of the Industrial Revolution to the Rio+20 Summit, charting the growth of humanity into a global force on an equivalent scale to major geological processes.\n\n{{Video|39048998|platform=Vimeo}}\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n}}\n\n[[Category:Films]]\n[[Category:Sustainability]]\n[[Category:Culture and community videos]]"}