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28<br />

<strong>Max</strong> <strong>Born</strong> • Gustav <strong>Born</strong><br />

Fig. 52<br />

The increasing rates of change<br />

in human activity since the<br />

beginning of the Industrial<br />

Revolution. Significant increases<br />

in the rates of change occur<br />

around the 1950s in each case<br />

and illustrate how the past 50<br />

years have been a period of<br />

dramatic and unprecedented<br />

change in human history (from<br />

Crutzen, P. and Steffen, W.,<br />

(2003). Climatic Change, 61,<br />

251-257).

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