Climate Change and the Carbon Economy Timeline

The Carbon Timebomb and Australia

The chart below expresses a few of the milestones associated with climate change. Although far from exhaustive there are included a number of industrial markers and weigh points and clearly the rate of advancement over the past 200 years and in particular since WWII, has and is placing a huge demand on environmental sustainability and finite resources.

In the lower half of the chart it is possible to track the history of Terra Australis within the same time frame.