These developments caused a resurgence of the new imperialism and motivated the British government to participate in the partition of Africa and to impose British hegomony over Asia. This new imperialism ran its bloody course of military aggression before it self-destructed at the end of the ...
Jan Zalasiewicz and Colin Waters, the chairmen if the AWG, clarified this in their comment of 17 February 2021: “We linked the beginning of the Anthropocene with the Great Acceleration because the processes of the latter drove the main part of the Earth System change that took it out of ...