Welcome to the Anthropocene, has been released on the eve of the major international science conference Planet Under Pressure. “The Anthropocene changes our relationship with the planet. We have a new responsibility and we need to determine how to meet that responsibility,” says Conference Chief Scientific Advisor, Elinor Ostrom Welcome to the Anthropocene, commissioned by the London Planet Under Pressure conference*, provides a data visualization of the state of the planet. It opens at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. As the camera swoops over Earth, viewers watch the planetary impact of humanity: cities, roads, railways, pipelines, cables and shipping lanes until finally the world’s planes spin a fine web around the planet. (source).