Drawing from early modern and contemporary geographic thought, this article explores how the premise of an Anthropocene (Age of Humans) can be used to reinforce enduring modes of human–environment thinking. Anthropocene dialogues build on insights posed by geographers of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: unity of nature, humans as nature made conscious, humans as nature’s conscience, and time periods as devices for thinking about human–environment relations. Complementing these ideas, contemporary geographers are making compelling statements about the Anthropocene, affirming that interpretations of the proposed geologic time period differ according to socioenvironmental variables, geographic imaginations, local contexts, and critical perspectives. Three forms of human–environment thinking emerge from examining links between early modern geographers and current geographers addressing the Anthropocene: synthesis thinking, epistemological thinking, and ethical thinking. Connections across ideas concerning the Anthropocene and geographic thought will be strengthened by developing systematic chronologies of the human–environment relationship.

本文借鉴了近代和近代早期的地理思想，探讨了人类世的前提如何被用来加强人类环境思维的持久模式。人类世间的对话建立在18世纪和19世纪初的地理学家的见解之上：自然的统一，作为自然意识的人类，作为自然良知的人类以及作为思考人与环境关系的手段的时间段。作为这些想法的补充，当代地理学家正在对人类世做出令人信服的陈述，申明根据社会环境变量，地理想象力，当地情况和批判性观点，对拟议地质时期的解释有所不同。通过考察早期现代地理学家和当前解决人类世纪的地理学家之间的联系，出现了三种人类环境思维形式：综合思维，认识论思维和伦理思维。通过发展人类与环境关系的系统时间顺序，将加强人类世界与地理思想之间的联系。