Since the beginning of the commercial revolution in the 14th century executives have built or lead their businesses in what scientists call the Holocene climatic epoch, a geologic time period that began at the end of the last ice age around 12, 000 years ago.

FORBES: Business in a Post-Holocene World

The second is that the planetary-boundaries group derives most of its limits by looking at conditions during the Holocene the epoch since the end of the most recent ice age, in which human civilisations have grown up.

ECONOMIST: The global environment