History for the Anthropocene
History for the Anthropocene
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人类世的历史
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2007
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W. Steffen
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L. Robin;W. Steffen
全球历史已经不仅仅是历史学家的事情了。本文探讨了科学史学的历史，特别是全球变化界最近发起的撰写地球上人的综合历史和未来(IHOPE)的倡议。一个新的地质时代--人类世被宣布，这反映了一个科学事实，即人类活动的变化现在正在塑造行星系统。描述地球系统随时间的变化需要了解生物物理因素、人类因素及其整合的历史。虽然全球变暖推动了最近编写全球历史的倡议，但正如20世纪40年代教科文组织人类科学及文化史倡议和国际科学史联盟所揭示的那样，全球原子时代也激励科学家编写全球历史。我们回顾了世界和环境史学的最新发展，以及流行的“千禧年”项目，如“现在的时钟”，以确定历史学家和非历史学家之间以非常不同的规模撰写世界历史的潜在共同利益，并为不同的受众服务。
Global history has become the business of more than just historians. This paper explores the history of scientific historiography, particularly a recent initiative of the Global Change community to write an Integrated History and future Of People on Earth (IHOPE). A new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, has been declared, reflecting the scientific fact that anthropogenic change is now shaping planetary systems. Describing changes to the Earth system over time demands understanding of the history of the biophysical factors, the human factors and their integration. While global warming has motivated the recent initiative to write global history, the global atomic era also provided an incentive for scientists to write global history, as was revealed in the 1940s UNESCO initiatives for a Scientific and Cultural History of Mankind and an International Union for the History of Science. We review recent developments in world and environmental historiography, and popular ‘millennial’ projects, such as the Clock of the Long Now, to identify potential common interests between historians and non-historians writing world history at very different scales, and for different audiences.