Sublime

All of them. Our future is going to be a contest between Gray, Green, and Gaia, between those three paradigms, those three sets of forces. Which is exactly what we’re experiencing today. The Right vs. Left, climate-is-a-hoax vs. climate-is-real argument, which unfortunately still absorbs so much of our energy, is an irrelevant conversation to what

Elinor Ostrom,

“Our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life,”45 and sometimes the solution: we need a “Marshall Plan for the Earth.”

The Anthropocene is a proposed term for the current geologic age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet and its biodiversity. Nothing is more human than aggrandizing humans, but we are a hugely powerful force on Earth in the twenty-first century.