ABSTRACT
Whose imaginations do Anthropocene stories originate from? First and most obviously, earth systems scientists give voice and visage to the concept. The humanity-as-earth-moving-agent also places “us” humans in a spectacular position. The current imagined storyline is perhaps the legacy of the Boomer generation, who grew up in an era of polarizing conflict and epic storylines-and who are thus enabled to continue carrying (for a few more years) what Latour (2013, 88) has called “Atlas’s malediction,” the “weight of the Globe, this strange Western obsession, the true ‘White Man’s burden.’”
