Humanity's impact has been so strong that scientists say a new geological epoch began then.

人类的影响如此之大，以至于科学家说，一个新的地质时代从此开始了。

Many scholars believe that this represents a new geological epoch.

许多学者认为，这代表着一个新的地质时代。

For instance, the geological epoch that we’re currently in is called the Holocene, and it spans the past 11,700 years.

例如，我们目前所处的地质时代称为全新世，它跨越了过去 11,700 年。

If the site is approved by the scientists who oversee the geological timescale, the official declaration of the Anthropocene as a new geological epoch will come in August 2024.

如果该地点得到监督地质时间表的科学家的批准，人类世将于2024年8月正式宣布为一个新的地质时代。

There is the assumption that humans have created a new geological epoch, and we need to learn how to see what our role is in it.

KH：假设人类创造了一个新的地质时代，我们需要学习如何看待我们在其中的作用。

In fact, the rise of humanity, thousands of years ago, started the first geological epoch dictated not by the evolution of the natural world… but by a single, globally dominant species.

事实上，几千年前人类的兴起开启了第一个地质时代，它不是由自然界的进化决定的… … 而是由单一的、全球主导的物种决定的。

For that reason, he argued, it was time to bring down the curtain on the Holocene-the current geological epoch, which has lasted for the past 12,000 years or so-and ring in a new one: the Anthropocene.

基于这个原因，他认为，是时候为持续了大约12000年的全新世——目前的地质时代划上句号，并且开启一个新的时代: 人类世。