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What Is: The Capitalocene
A rigorous and increasingly influential critique has emerged from the fields of environmental sociology, historical geography, and eco-Marxism. This critique suggests that the Anthropocene concept, while scientifically useful in describing biophysical changes, is sociologically bankrupt. It argues that the term "Anthropocene" engages in a false universalization, attributing the ecological crimes of a specific historical system to an undifferentiated "humanity." In doing so, it naturalizes the crisis, presenting it as the inevitable outcome of human nature rather than the specific result of a specific mode of production. The alternative framework proposed is the Capitalocene.

An alphabetical listing:

Anthropocene
January 2, 2026
Biological Plasticity
December 25, 2025
Capitalocene
January 4, 2026
Dementia
December 6, 2025
Ecosystem
November 30, 2025
El Niño, La Niña, and a Climate in Flux
October 11, 2025
Extinction Level Events
October 17, 2025
Gravitational Microlensing
December 14, 2025
Greenhouse Gas
October 28, 2025
Hormones
November 8, 2025
Human Microbiome
November 2, 2025
Microplastics
October 5, 2025
Mitochondrion
November 22, 2025
Narcissism
November 15, 2025
Phanerozoic Eon
December 20, 2025
Psychedelic Renaissance
January 1, 2026
Schizophrenia
September 27, 2025

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