The Anthropocene Working Group was set up in 2009 and in 2016 concluded that the human-caused changes to Earth were so great that a new geological time unit was justified.

人类世工作组（AWG）成立于2009年，并于2016年得出结论，认为人类对地球造成的变化如此之大，以至于有必要建立一个新的地质时间单位。