Assuming Responsibility for the Anthropocene: Challenges and Opportunities in Education

摘要: It is necessary to understand that the previous epoch, Holocene, has definitely come an end and will not be reestablished ever. Our current social economic systems, such as agriculture, permanent settlements, transport trade infrastructures, large-scale division of labor, all developed during relatively stable environmental conditions Holocene. Now, however, we have managed, inadvertently unconsciously, strain these same their limits. Ethically, Anthropocene emphasizes us—from individuals states United Nations—are collectively responsible for future world. Conceivably, force previously wrought unintended changes could used in a conscious reflected manner create world sustainable on regional well global scale many generations come. As conceptual framework, hence provide solid basis envisioning human presence Earth which humans would no longer “invaders” but rather participants shaping natural environment. In future, technology culture integrated into nature—and thus “unnatural” environment surrounds us today transformed human-designed neo-natural includes integral part interconnected system (Leinfelder et al. 2012).