ABSTRACT
This chapter describes three key tasks: examining those debates that point to the existence of a new 'Earth System'; rethinking our eco-ethics; and problematising the rhetoric of 'growth' and 'progress' that underpins modernity's project of human control. The 'De-growth Movement' is similarly observant of new relationships with the past that might inspire trajectories into Anthropocene futures. The idea of the Anthropocene has since undergone significant critical analysis, triggering a powerful debate about whether the Holocene has, in fact, been terminated and, if so, how the beginnings of its successor might be evidenced in the geological record. Rewilded places have become popular and sometimes radical Anthropocene landscapes that vary in their degree of human intervention and the places where rewilded plots are envisioned. Putting aside the specifics of its stratigraphic reality, Di Paola has argued that the Anthropocene might also be thought of as 'a framework for reflection', or a prompt for 'living otherwise' in the world.
