The irreversible path of the Anthropocene

Abstract

The Homo sapiens-nature dichotomy critique has served for defining the Anthropocene era. If humans recognize ourselves today as an important power of global change, so that we are part of the name of an era, it is the moment in which the Humanities and Social Sciences contribute with an innovative proposal, reflecting their multiple knowledges produced within the framework of a transdisciplinary debate with other sciences. Overcoming the human-nature dichotomy will better to define this new era. We propose that the irreversibility of the process demands combined actions between different approaches that stress the human economy with the planetary limits that the different sciences have formulated.