when did the eartth pollution first started ?
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When the factories started growing up....and the greeds of human were started increasing
When the Spanish conquered South America in the 16th century they took over the Incas’ mines and soon began to pump clouds of lead dust over the Andes. The silver the conquistadors sent back home made them wealthy. It also made them the world’s first industrial-scale toxic metal air polluters – perhaps causing us to rethink the timing of the moment when humans truly began to change the environment.
Formal recognition of the Anthropocene epoch, the “Age of Humans”, will acknowledge the occurrence of an unprecedented impact of human activities on Earth. As scientists, we’ve begun using the term informally, especially in regard to anthropogenic (“human-caused”) climate change. Officially, though, we all live in the Holocene, the epoch named by geologists to mark the end of the last ice age.
To officially say that we live in the Anthropocene – that is, declare the Holocene over and the Anthropocene already underway – we would have to draw an unequivocal line between the two. We’d have to agree on a point in time when human impacts on the environment became large enough to warrant an official change in scientific nomenclature. Some would assign it to the start of agriculture 11,000 years ago, while others tie it to the advent of the nuclear era in 1945, but most recognise the Anthropocene as beginning with the industrial revolution (1780s-1830s).