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The 11,700-year-old Holocene epoch is over. We're now living in the Anthropocene epoch. 长达11700年的全新世结束啦。我们如今正生活在“人类世”纪元。 编者注：全新世 You don’t need to be paying much attention to the world around you to know that humans are having a massive influence on the planet, but our influence is now on the way to being officially recognised in geologic terms. 无需劳神费力，我们都能感受到人类对地球产生的巨大影响。如今，地质学界打算用地质术语来确认这些影响。 The 11,700-year-old geological Holocene epoch has ended, scientists say, and we’re now living in the Anthropocene: an era defined by humanity’s influence on the world around us. 科学家表示，长达11700年的全新世已结束，我们现在正生活在“人类世”：即人类活动对地球施加影响的时代。 In fact, unless you’re over the age of 66, you’ve always been living in it. A 35-strong team of international researchers from the Working Group on the Anthropocene voted 30-3 (two were absent) in favour of the epoch shift, and the starting date is 1950. 事实上，66岁以下的人自出生起就生活在这个纪元了。一支由35位国际顶尖研究者组成的“人类世”工作小组开展了纪元更变与否的投票，投票结果以30比3 The date isn’t random: it matches when the first nuclear tests created a new stratum in the planet’s surface. | 
