how does geography
continually shape the culture of
the current generation?
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The very concept of the Anthropocene suggests that humans are actively shaping the planet in ways that will resonate through geologic time. But how has the planet—in this case, geography—shaped human societies since the days of our earliest ancestors?
In this week's episode of Generation Anthropocene, producer Mike Osborne talks with Ian Morris, a professor in the Stanford Archaeology Center and author of the 2010 book Why the West Rules—For Now. Morris developed a social development index to try to quantify the way societies and cultures have grown and changed with time. The index is based on four key factors: urbanization, information technology, war-making capacity and energy capture per capita, or how much food, water and other natural resources each person consumes.