Our current understanding of the Earth System has significantly improved in recent years. As a result, the Anthropocene is seen as a major planetary emergency not only for humans but for other living organisms too. However, Earth System science lacks a proper integration of the social or human side and the natural side of the Earth System into an organic theoretical corpus. Without such an integration a comprehensive understanding of the Earth System is not possible, and the practical actions undertaken to face the Anthropocene crisis will only alleviate some of its effects but the planetary emergency will keep deepening. The epistemological reason underlying disagreement between natural and social sciences is that Earth System scientists understand the natural side of the Earth System and the Anthropocene from a dialectic and materialist perspective, whereas they understand the social side of the studied object from a positivist and idealist perspective. Such a dualist approach hampers a proper understanding and the practical actions aimed at transcending the planetary crisis. By consciously adopting a dialectic and materialist epistemic paradigm under which both natural and social realms are studied and understood, Earth System scientists would be able to identify the internal contradictions of the studied objects and, accordingly, to address the research in the suitable directions. In this way, structural solutions and not merely conjunctural measures to face the Anthropocene crisis could be formulated.

近年来，我们对地球系统的当前理解已大大改善。结果，人类世被认为不仅对人类而且对其他活生物体都是重大的行星紧急情况。但是，地球系统科学缺乏将地球系统的社会或人类方面以及自然方面适当整合到有机的理论语料库中的能力。没有这种整合，就不可能对地球系统有一个全面的了解，而为应对人类世界危机而采取的实际行动只会减轻其某些影响，但行星紧急情况将不断加深。在自然科学和社会科学之间存在分歧的认识论原因是，地球系统科学家从辩证和唯物主义的角度理解了地球系统和人类世的自然方面，而他们却从实证主义和理想主义的角度理解了所研究对象的社会方面。这种二元论方法妨碍了对旨在超越星球危机的正确理解和实际行动。通过有意识地采用一种辩证法和唯物主义的认识论范式，在该范式下对自然和社会领域都进行了研究和理解，地球系统的科学家将能够确定被研究对象的内部矛盾，从而在适当的方向上解决研究问题。通过这种方式，