The Anthropocene
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Our tree of Topic pages is divided into two large trunks. Anthropogenic Topics encompass information about the human use and transformation of the Salish Sea and surrounding lands. We currently use four branches to describe these topics. Land Use describes the broadscale conversation of the land to human purposes, including Forestry, Agriculture, Industrial as well as two patterns of settlement: Urban and Rural. This also includes land reserved as Conservation Lands. Infrastructure topics concern the various constructed systems that enable these uses, a network of roads, walls, pipes, wires, and rails that are the enabling tools of the Anthropocene, and with a significant limb concerning Water Management. We have a branch devoted to Climate Change. Finally, we have devoted a large limb to Socioeconomics which encompasses all the relationship systems and behaviors that we have evolved that make it all possible. Other-than-human topics are categorized as Ecosystem Topics which focus on the ecosystem as it evolves and behaves outside of human controls. We recognize that his dichotomy is both arbitrary and useful and that human involvement can be both negative and positive.
