“In tracking the effects of human activity upon the Earth, a number of socioeconomic and earth system parameters are utilized including population, economics, water usage, food production, transportation, technology, green house gases, surface temperature, and natural resource usage. The Anthropocene is typically depicted as following the Holocene, to emphasize the central role of humankind in geology and ecology. Since 1950, these trends are increasing significantly if not exponentially.”
Bryan MacKinnon, Trends of the Great Acceleration of the Anthropocene from 1750 to 2010. The data graphically displayed is scaled for each subcategories’ 2010 value. Source data is from the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme www.igbp.net
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Acceleration#cite_note-Mcneill_2014-1