{"id":13024,"date":"2020-10-15T12:23:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T12:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christopherpeet.ca\/uncategorized\/3-thinking-at-different-scales-the-great-acceleration\/"},"modified":"2020-10-15T12:23:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T12:23:37","slug":"3-thinking-at-different-scales-the-great-acceleration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christopherpeet.ca\/podcast\/3-thinking-at-different-scales-the-great-acceleration\/","title":{"rendered":"3. Thinking at Different Scales: The Great Acceleration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/afterthoughtcdk\/embed\/episodes\/3--Thinking-at-Different-Scales-The-Great-Acceleration-ek8t5s\" height=\"180px\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"width:100%; height:180px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this episode we will explore the notion of thinking at different timescales. We will look at four different time scales: the Great Acceleration (1950-2020), Holocene (last 10,000 years), Anthropocene (current epoch), and the emergence of Homo Sapiens (200,000 years).<\/p>\n<p>Some references:<\/p>\n<p>On the notion of &#8220;crisis&#8221; in Chinese meaning danger + &#8220;incipient moment&#8221; (rather than opportunity), reference is to Sinologist Victor Mair. See http:\/\/www.pinyin.info\/chinese\/crisis.html<\/p>\n<p>On the Great Acceleration, the work of Will Steffen and others; graphs depicting different components of the Great Acceleration are first published in 2004, the updated in 2010. (cf. http:\/\/www.igbp.net\/globalchange\/greatacceleration.4.1b8ae20512db692f2a680001630.html)<\/p>\n<p>On the notion of a &#8220;safe operating space&#8221;, the phrase comes from Johan Rockstrom and others working out of the Stockholm Resilience Center, two major papers published in 2009 in Ecology &#038; Society and in Nature researching &#8220;planetary boundaries&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>New episodes coming out every Thursday! We&#8217;d love to hear from you! Feel free to get in touch with us on instagram @afterthought_podcast, facebook @AfterthoughtPodcastCDK, or by emailing us at afterthoughtpodcast2019@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode we will explore the notion of thinking at different timescales. We will look at four different time scales: the Great Acceleration (1950-2020), Holocene (last 10,000 years), Anthropocene (current epoch), and the emergence of Homo Sapiens (200,000 years). 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