The planetary-boundaries idea seeks to constrain the Anthropocene within the norms of the Holocene.
This is, at bottom, an argument about the nature of the Anthropocene the age of man.
And one of the messages of the Anthropocene is that piecemeal actions can quickly add up to planetary change.
Otherwise, we will be fiddling as the Anthropocene comes to an abrupt end rather than moving toward the Sustainocene.
His recent calculations, published last year in a landmark paper in the journal Nature, were good news for proponents of an official Anthropocene.
The challenge of the Anthropocene is to use human ingenuity to set things up so that the planet can accomplish its 21st-century task.
And it illustrates an emerging law of the anthropocene: that the chain of manmade alterations to the environment extend far beyond what you think.
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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.
But the true meaning of the Anthropocene is that we have affected nearly every aspect of our environment from a warming atmosphere to the bottom of an acidifying ocean.
Alternatively, it could be argued that the Anthropocene has not yet arrived because human impacts on the planet are destined to be even greater 50 or a hundred years from now.
She highlighted that humanity is living in an era of anthropocene and urged for collaboration and synergistic solutions, as well as a strengthened science-policy interface to solve the sustainability crisis that is currently being faced.
Recognition was given to the fact that human activity had driven the planet into a new epoch, the Anthropocene, in which many Earth-system processes and the living fabric of ecosystems are now dominated by human activities.
The Anthropocene's equivalent of iridium is nitrogen - although there will be other candidates (such as heavy metals, and carbon isotope ratios characteristic of fossil fuel emissions) for geochemists of the far future to identify as the chemical signature of the new epoch's dawn.
Noting that we are now in a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, as humans are the major changing force of the Earth system, she explained that the answers provided by technological solutions can only go so far it they do not come with social transformation as well.
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