The Anthropocene: conceptual and historical perspectives
The Anthropocene: conceptual and historical perspectives
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10.1098/rsta.2010.0327
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2011-03
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W. Steffen;J. Grinevald;P. Crutzen;J. McNeill
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作者：
W. Steffen;J. Grinevald;P. Crutzen;J. McNeill
人类对全球环境的影响现在已经变得如此之大和活跃，以至于它在对地球系统运作的影响方面可以与自然界的一些伟大力量相媲美。尽管自19世纪以来，全球范围内的人类对环境的影响已经得到认可，但大约十年前引入的人类世一词直到最近才在全球变化研究界得到广泛但非正式的使用。然而，这个术语还没有被正式接受为地球历史上的一个新的地质纪元或时代。在本文中，我们提出了正式承认人类世为地球历史新纪元的理由，认为1800年左右工业革命的到来为新纪元提供了合乎逻辑的开始日期。然后，我们探讨了人类世的演变，人类进入21世纪世纪的最新趋势，专注于我们与生活世界的其他部分的关系的深刻变化，并在早期的尝试和管理我们与驱动地球气候系统的大型地球物理周期的关系的建议。
The human imprint on the global environment has now become so large and active that it rivals some of the great forces of Nature in its impact on the functioning of the Earth system. Although global-scale human influence on the environment has been recognized since the 1800s, the term Anthropocene, introduced about a decade ago, has only recently become widely, but informally, used in the global change research community. However, the term has yet to be accepted formally as a new geological epoch or era in Earth history. In this paper, we put forward the case for formally recognizing the Anthropocene as a new epoch in Earth history, arguing that the advent of the Industrial Revolution around 1800 provides a logical start date for the new epoch. We then explore recent trends in the evolution of the Anthropocene as humanity proceeds into the twenty-first century, focusing on the profound changes to our relationship with the rest of the living world and on early attempts and proposals for managing our relationship with the large geophysical cycles that drive the Earth’s climate system.