Extraordinary human energy consumption and resultant geological impacts beginning around 1950 CE initiated the proposed Anthropocene Epoch

J Syvitski, CN Waters, J Day, JD Milliman… - … Earth & Environment, 2020‏ - nature.com
Growth in fundamental drivers—energy use, economic productivity and population—can
provide quantitative indications of the proposed boundary between the Holocene Epoch and …

Digitalization and the Anthropocene

F Creutzig, D Acemoglu, X Bai… - Annual review of …, 2022‏ - annualreviews.org
Great claims have been made about the benefits of dematerialization in a digital service
economy. However, digitalization has historically increased environmental impacts at local …

Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries

K Richardson, W Steffen, W Lucht, J Bendtsen… - Science …, 2023‏ - science.org
This planetary boundaries framework update finds that six of the nine boundaries are
transgressed, suggesting that Earth is now well outside of the safe operating space for …

Safe and just Earth system boundaries

J Rockström, J Gupta, D Qin, SJ Lade, JF Abrams… - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
The stability and resilience of the Earth system and human well-being are inseparably
linked,–, yet their interdependencies are generally under-recognized; consequently, they …

Indigenous knowledge and the shackles of wilderness

MS Fletcher, R Hamilton… - Proceedings of the …, 2021‏ - National Acad Sciences
The environmental crises currently grip** the Earth have been codified in a new proposed
geological epoch: the Anthropocene. This epoch, according to the Anthropocene Working …

The planetary commons: A new paradigm for safeguarding Earth-regulating systems in the Anthropocene

J Rockström, L Kotzé, S Milutinović… - Proceedings of the …, 2024‏ - National Acad Sciences
The Anthropocene signifies the start of a no-analogue trajectory of the Earth system that is
fundamentally different from the Holocene. This new trajectory is characterized by rising …

[كتاب][B] The precipice: Existential risk and the future of humanity

T Ord - 2020‏ - books.google.com
This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the
central challenge of our time. If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Our species …

[كتاب][B] The politics of the Anthropocene

JS Dryzek, J Pickering - 2018‏ - books.google.com
The Politics of the Anthropocene is a sophisticated yet accessible treatment of how human
institutions, practices, and principles need to be re-thought in response to the challenges of …

The Anthropocene as an event, not an epoch

P Gibbard, M Walker, A Bauer… - Journal of …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Over the course of the last decade the concept of the Anthropocene has become widely
established within and beyond the geoscientific literature but its boundaries remain …

Candidate sites and other reference sections for the Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point of the Anthropocene series

CN Waters, SD Turner, J Zalasiewicz… - The Anthropocene …, 2023‏ - journals.sagepub.com
We review and compare proposals for 12 reference sections submitted to the Anthropocene
Working Group of the International Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy, of which …