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Exiting the Anthropocene and Entering the Symbiocene
Center for Humans & Nature
Format: Website
Publication Date: Nov 30, 2015
Sources ID: 81471
Visibility: Public (group default)
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It has been proposed that humans are now living within a period of the Earth’s history appropriately named “The Anthropocene.”[1] The name is derived from the observed human influence and indeed increasing dominance of climatic, biophysical, and evolutionary processes occurring at a planetary scale. The issue of human dominance is not simply climate change (as bad as that is), it is the whole capitalist development paradigm that is at the dark heart of maldevelopment—that which undermines and destroys the very foundations of all life on earth.