Unthinking the Anthropocene: Man and Nature in the Capitalocene
The Anthropocene is the most influential environmentalist concept of the new millennium. Is it also the major dangerous? Anthropocene? Age of Man? The words are seemingly innocent and scientific. The grim realities of climate crisis are framed as a momentous collision. It is a Tale of the Fall. Man is “overwhelming the great forces of nature.” For the Earth system scientists, Man and Nature is decidedly apolitical...