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Rejecting the Anthropocene is a mistake
Rejecting the Anthropocene is a mistake

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In the second of our two-part series, we go head-to-head on the Anthropocene, after the status of ‘Anthropocene’ was rejected for the world by an international panel last month. Read Part 1 here of the debate here. As ecological disaster . . .

In the second of our two-part series, we go head-to-head on the Anthropocene, after the status of ‘Anthropocene’ was rejected for the world by an international panel last month. Read Part 1 here of the debate here. As ecological disaster on Earth looms ever larger, the International Union of Geological Sciences has voted against recognizing the Anthropocene as an official epoch. The vote was anti-scientific and regressive, argues Timothy Morton. Now more than ever we must recognize that we have entered an age of human-induced planetary transformation.Timothy Morton’s latest book, Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology, will be published in May 2024. You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long ti…

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