ABSTRACT
The Royal Society claims we have already moved from the Holocene to the Anthropocene epoch. Debate rages about when this happened and what markers matter, but one layer of evidence is the ubiquitous plastic which now occupies the sediment across the whole planet, including the Antarctic. The Anthropocene is tied to anthropocentric climate change, globalised capitalism, massive deforestation, runaway human population growth and a fourth great extinction period. The valiant protests of the 1960s were levelled at pollution and inequity, and out of this critique Postmodernism was born. But the evidence shows us that little tangibly changed, and the train of globalised capitalism rolled on regardless. Something new is occurring though; global corporatism is increasingly resulting in planetary ecological awareness.
