A Recent Human History and its Anthropogenic Climate Change Trajectory

A recent human history – its genesis and origin in the large-scale agricultural revolution – has witnessed an explosion in human population; a massive increase in animal (enormous emissions) and plant agriculture (often destroying naturally occurring carbon sinks in poly-cropped and prairies’ soil(s)); industrial exploitation of intensely carbon emitting fossil fuels; chaotically designed and unsustainably expansionist urban sprawl and burgeoning cities and mega-cities; mass deforestation; and a vast increase in wealth stratification, which impedes global cooperation on mitigating anthropogenic climate change, as the wealthy tend to want to keep their enormous carbon footprints.