Humankind still covers most of its energy needs with coal, gas, and oil, thereby accelerating climate change. But what are the alternatives? At the ZiF Conference 2020—the major public annual conference of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF)—experts from various disciplines discuss their answers to this question. In this conference recording, MPIWG Director Prof. Dr. Jürgen Renn presents his talk "Das Anthropozän und die Energiewende" (The Anthropocene and the Energy Transition).