Despite their seeming reluctance to engage in the politics of the now, historians have a crucial role to play as witnesses to climate change and its attendant social injustices. Climate change is a product of industrialization, but its effects are known in different geographical and temporal scales through the compilation and analysis of historical narratives. This essay explores modes of thinking about disasters and temporality, the Anthropocene, and the social production of risk – set against a case study of the Korean DMZ as a site for historical witnessing. Historical methods are crucial if we are to investigate deeply the social processes that have produced climate change. A “slow disaster in the Anthropocene” approach might show the way forward.

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人类世的缓慢灾害：一位历史学家目睹朝鲜半岛的气候变化

尽管历史学家似乎不愿参与当今的政治活动，但历史学家仍扮演着至关重要的角色，可以作为气候变化及其伴随的社会不公正现象的见证人。气候变化是工业化的产物，但是通过汇编和分析历史叙事，可以在不同的地理和时间尺度上了解气候变化的影响。本文探讨了关于灾难和暂时性，人类世以及社会风险产生的思维方式-以韩国DMZ作为历史见证站点的案例研究为背景。如果我们要深入调查造成气候变化的社会过程，历史方法至关重要。“人类世缓慢的灾难”方法可能显示出前进的方向。