Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Necrocene "To confront Anthropocene crisis is not to cast a prospect of dis-tancing projection onto a deep past or lost future but, rather, to work from within the scene in which we are enmeshed, the Anthropocene as a landscape of genocide. With what they call the 'orbis hypothesis,' climate scientists Simon L. Lewis and Mark A. Maslin propose 1610 CE as the 'golden spike' origin point for the Anthropocene. Working from the proposition that the effects of genocide are registered as declining levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide measurable by traces in arctic ice cores, the orbis hypothesis positions colonial encounter, the transatlantic slave trade, and its lethal effects on indigenous plants, animals, and peoples as pivotal. In representing the Anthropocene as a scene of genocide precipitated by the fatal transformation of world into orbis, or territorialized globe, by techniques of colonial landscaping—that is, 'exposure to dis-eases carried by Europeans, plus war, enslavement and famine' along with the transfer of plant and animal species between Europe and the Americas, leading to a significant loss in bio-diversity and acceleration of species extinction rates—it might, rather, be named the Necrocene. It is not a term I have coined, but one I give a particular twist that foregrounds the agencies and power-producing effects of making die."
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