负责地质时间表的国际地层学委员会(ICS)尚未批准这个新术语。但在最近一次投票之后,AWG将在2021年之前向ICS提交一份正式提案,以正式定义我们当前的时代,也就是人类对地球气候和环境产生主导影响的时代。
in the wake of:紧紧跟随,随着……而来
The vote saw 29 members of the AWG support not only the new Anthropocene designation but also a favored start date—the mid-twentieth century. Various starting points have been proposed for the Anthropocene era ranging from the beginnings of agriculture more than 10,000 years ago to the first atomic bomb blast in 1945 that spread radioactive debris around the world—traces of which can still be detected in the planet's soil and glaciers.
在这次投票中,29名AWG成员不仅支持新的人类世命名,而且还支持以20世纪中期作为人类世的开始。对于人类世的起点有不同的提议,有提议以一万多年前农耕时代的开始为起点,还有提议以1945年第一颗原子弹爆炸为起点,这一次爆炸将放射性碎片散布到世界各地,如今在地球的土壤和冰川中仍然可以检测到放射性碎片的痕迹。
Most scientists who support the Anthropocene designation favor the later start date, and the AWG panel agreed based on the fact that rapid population growth and industrialization in the mid-twentieth century—which led to greater natural resource use and greenhouse gas emissions—mark a “Great Acceleration” on our species' impact on the planet.
【新地质时代来临!地球进入“人类世”】相关文章:
最新
2020-09-15
2020-09-15
2020-09-15
2020-09-15
2020-09-15
2020-09-15