“I always bridle a little against it because [the anthropocene] means “the age of man” or “the age of humans” and there’s sort of this flattening in that terminology that sort of ascribes the marks that we’ve left on this planet to humanness, as opposed to a certain way of being human that is not the way most people have been humans throughout history. In fact, it’s not the way most people are humans even now. It’s a particular kind of dominance-based, extractive-based capitalist way of being that sees the earth as a machine that has left its mark in such a damaging way, and that is now called the anthropocene.”
“I always bridle a little against it because [the anthropocene] means “the age of man” or “the age of humans” and there’s sort of this flattening in that terminology that sort of ascribes the marks that we’ve left on this planet to humanness, as opposed to a certain way of being human that is not the way most people have been humans throughout history. In fact, it’s not the way most people are humans even now. It’s a particular kind of dominance-based, extractive-based capitalist way of being that sees the earth as a machine that has left its mark in such a damaging way, and that is now called the anthropocene.”