That said, one thing is clear: We live in the Anthropocene—an era when everything from the atmosphere to the layers of rock laid down for the future are dominated by human activities.

这就是说，有件事是非常清楚的：我们生活在“人类世”——一个当所有事物，从空气到岩层所奠定的未来，都由人类活动主导的时代。

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But have we really ushered in a new geological era, the so-called Anthropocene?

但是，我们真的迎来了一个新的地质时代，所谓的“人类世”吗？

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Rather than placing us still in the Holocene, a peculiarly stable era that began only around 10, 000 years ago, the geologists say we are already living in the Anthropocene: the age of man.

地质学家们称，我们已经生活在人类纪——人的时代，而不是仍将人类放在约1000年前开始的特别稳定的年代——全新世。

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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.

UNESCO: State of the Planet under discussion