As scientists get used to the idea that earth is in a new geological age , that the holocene - the last geological age - has been replaced by anthropocene , they 're figuring out how it got to be that way .
The ice cores , taken from james ross island , show that the antarctic peninsula experienced a warm period during the early holocene , followed by stable temperatures from about 9200 to 2500 years ago , that were similar to modern-day levels .
The holocene never supported a civilisation of 10 billion reasonably rich people , as the anthropocene must seek to do , and there is no proof that such a population can fit into a planetary pot so circumscribed .
The consequences of our interventions into earth 's geophysical processes are yet to be determined , but scientists say they 're so fundamental that the holocene no longer exists . We now live in the anthropocene , a geological age of mankind 's making .
In an editorial published in may the respected publication argued that the holocene could simply be renamed the anthropocene .
在五月发表的社论中,这份权威刊物认为这仅仅是将全新世更名为人类世而已。
Doing so would eliminate the need to find a boundary layer it continued because the holocene has already been defined scientifically .
它还补充,这样则不必刻意去寻找边界层,因为全新世已有了科学的定义。
Many scientists feel that human interference in the way the earth works is now so great that the holocene is history and a truly separate anthropocene has dawned .
许多科学家感到人类对地球的影响巨大,全新世已经成为过去,一个真正独立的地质年代人类世已经开始。
It is that the further the earth system gets from the stable conditions of the holocene , the more likely it is to slip into a whole new state and change itself yet further .