2023/07/11

Métis Anthropologist Notes Irony of Scientists Straining to Figure Out Exact Anthropocene ‘Start Date’

“European scientists seem to be quite captivated that this time period starts very recently. For Indigenous and other displaced and dispossessed peoples who were impacted by violence over the last 600 years, everything that leads up to what makes this global shift possible starts much earlier.”
– Métis Anthropologist Zoe Todd, problematizing debates about how recently the Anthropocene began [quote edited]
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