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The exercise we are going to ask you to complete is fairly simple

and fun. As you have seen from the example above and from the
argument made in the previous section, the best way to familiarize
oneself with the anthropocene is to determine the size, the extent
the scale of the human "footprint" on Earth. The scale has
changed immensely in the last two centuries but it is difficult for us
to get a real grip on the many measurements that have been
proposed to account for the change. How can we be aware that
what is called the Great Acceleration (see Steffen's paper) is such a
recent phenomenon? This fantastic increase has happened in my
own lifetime.
To render "footprint" phenomena visible we need to find good
sources of data and also visualize them in the most striking and
least distorted way. So what we are asking you to do is to find an
example of "footprint" data and to share it with other
students. We will soon accumulate enough examples to become
sensitive to the accelerated change of scale and thereby provide a
more concrete sense of the notion of "human footprint".
Here You can find resources and examples of visualization:

http://www.anthropocene.info/en/hom
e

http://anthropocenejournal.com/categ
ory/data-visualizations/

http://globaia.org

You can access to the forum section here : S05-Visualize

anthropocene

To obtain your "Statement of accomplishment"

To obtain your "Statement of accomplishment" for this Mooc you
have to post after the week 3 in the dedicated section Peer
assessment your Socio-Technical Analysis.
To validate your contribution you also have to review other
contributions by following the evaluation criteria.
You can find help on this page : Help section for Socio-technical
Analysis
You can post your contribution in this section : Socio-technical
Analysis