Anthropocene(s)

“Considering [the] major and still growing impacts of human activities on earth and atmosphere, and at all, including global, scales, it seems to us more than appropriate to emphasize the central role of mankind in geology and ecology by proposing to use the term ‘anthropocene’ for the current geological epoch” (Crutzen and Stoermer [2000] 2013, 484).

“Anthropocene rhetoric . . . frequently acts as a mechanism of universalization . . . which enables the military-state-corporate apparatus to disavow responsibility for the differentiated impacts of climate change, effectively obscuring the accountability behind the mounting eco-catastrophe and inadvertently making us all complicit in its destructive project” (Demos 2017, 19).

“Of course, there are recognizable global Anthropocene signs—floods, fires, and storms—but variation is everywhere. Given the vast and growing catalogue of planetary problems, pluralization of the singular Anthropocene is crucial” (Jensen 2025, 1).