If you somehow still doubt humanity's power to alter our planet, ecosystems, and climate, then kindly consider this fact: humanity is slowing Earth's rotation, shifting its poles, and lengthening our days.
Man-made global warming has already melted so much ice in Antarctica and Greenland that Earth's rotation has slowed down and its axis shifted. This has in turn resulted in slightly altering and lengthening the day and disrupting the precision of satellite tracking and global positioning systems (GPS) and timekeeping.
Researchers have warned that if we humans continue to warm up the planet by emitting more greenhouse gas emissions, this would ultimately have a greater influence on our planet's rotational speed than the moon.
“We humans have a greater impact on our planet than we realise,” explains Benedikt Soja, Professor of Space Geodesy at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at ETH Zurich, “and this naturally places great responsibility on us for the future of our planet.”
And it's not limited to just climate change. Research has also shown that human depletion of groundwater has shifted the global distribution of water so much that it's causing the North Pole to move roughly 4.36 centimeters per year.
Humanity's power to alter our Earth is truly shocking.
