“The Anthropocene – Questions of Definations”, Timothy Clark
“ The Anthropocene – Questions of Definations ”, Timothy Clark In the essay “The Anthropocene – Questions of Definations”, Timothy Clark explores the concept of the Anthropocene, a term used to describe current geological epoch characterized by human impact on the earth’s ecosystem. This essay is the first chapter of the book Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept. The term’ anthropocene, was first coined by atmospheric scientists as a name for the geological epoch that the earth entered with the industrial revolution, around 1800. It is characterized by the very unprecedented fact that human activities have become so pervasive towards the environment that now things have become unreturnable, thereby leading it to suffer terra incognita. The term mostly applies to the year 1945, that is since the Great Acceleration, which is a term used to describe the rapid and widespread increase in human activities and its impact on Earth’s natural ...