Publishing in Ambio and elsewhere, geoscientists distributed across several disciplines have both created and substantiated the Anthropocene concept since the turn of the millennium. Epochal and topically encompassing, the concept has served to focus academic and political attention on the extraordinary scale, scope and magnitude of the human impact on the Earth. The concept serves as a metaphorical ‘roof’ that allows a family of geoscientific terms to reside together harmoniously in the same space. The four Ambio papers evaluated here helped to both build the roof and the family. However, for all their merits, the papers form part of a wider scientific discourse that threatens to colonise the imagination of Earth present and future. A scientific framing of the Anthropocene needs to be deframed and then reframed in terms of what science misses (e.g. diverse social values, needs and wants, which imply alternate courses of possible future action). The papers assessed in this commentary have, albeit unintentionally, helped inspire this de- and reframing in wider social science, the humanities and the arts. Looking ahead, dissonant forms of knowledge and argument about Earth present and future will be key to forging a ‘good Anthropocene’. In future, Ambio can help to foster this productive dissonance by loosening its own intellectual parameters while maintaining its high standards of scholarship.

自世纪之交以来，分布在多个学科的地球科学家在Ambio和其他地方发表文章，创造并证实了人类世的概念。该概念具有划时代意义且具有广泛的主题意义，已将学术和政治注意力集中在人类对地球影响的非凡规模、范围和幅度上。这个概念就像一个隐喻的“屋顶”，允许一系列地球科学术语和谐地居住在同一个空间中。四Ambio-人类环境杂志这里评估的论文有助于建造屋顶和家庭。然而，尽管这些论文有其优点，但它们构成了更广泛的科学话语的一部分，有可能殖民地球现在和未来的想象力。需要对人类世的科学框架进行去框架化，然后根据科学所遗漏的内容（例如，不同的社会价值观、需求和愿望，这意味着未来可能采取的行动的替代路线）进行重新框架。本评论中评估的论文，尽管是无意的，有助于激发更广泛的社会科学、人文科学和艺术领域的这种去框架化和重构。展望未来，关于地球现在和未来的不和谐形式的知识和争论将是打造“良好人类世”的关键。未来，安比奥 可以通过放松自己的智力参数同时保持其高标准的学术来帮助培养这种富有成效的不和谐。