Against the Anthropocene
“Anthropocene” is more fundamentally the continuation of a long trend — a trend coextensive with modernity, colonialism, and geology as modern science — not a divergence or awakening. As such, the term “Anthropocene” is the latest incarnation of anthropocentric thinking.
By Kieran Suckling, Executive Director of the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity @CenterForBioDiv
▻http://blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/2014/07/07/against-the-anthropocene