The spread of modern agriculture in the third world, with the advent of high-yielding grain varieties, agrochemicals and irrigation infrastructure, labelled as the Green Revolution, is considered to be an important driver of human impacts on the earth. This transformation is considered to be emblematic of the Great Acceleration of the mid-20th century (McNeill & Engelke, 2014), the period formally approved by the Anthropocene Working Group as the commencement for the Anthropocene. 1 Meanwhile, there have been other competing formulations-the dawn of agriculture, the emergence of capitalism and the Industrial Revolution (Reisman & Fairbairn, 2021).
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