In an editorial published in may the respected publication argued that the holocene could simply be renamed the anthropocene .
在五月發表的社論中,這份權威刊物認為這僅僅是將全新世更名為人類世而已。
Doing so would eliminate the need to find a boundary layer it continued because the holocene has already been defined scientifically .
它還補充,這樣則不必刻意去尋找邊界層,因為全新世已有了科學的定義。
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 .
許多科學家感到人類對地球的影響巨大,全新世已經成為過去,一個真正獨立的地質年代人類世已經開始。
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 .
這是因為在全新世穩定的條件下,地球系統越向前,它就越有可能進入一個全新的狀態,并且還會進一步改變。
To validate the anthropocene , all these changes will be measured against the range of variation in our current geological period -- the holocene epoch -- which began some 12000 years ago as earth emerged from the last ice age .