"Our planetary impacts have increased since our earliest ancestors stepped down from the trees, at first by hunting some animal species to extinction. Much later, following the development of farming and agricultural societies, we started to change the climate. Yet Earth only truly became a “human planet” with the emergence of something quite different. This was capitalism, which itself grew out of European expansion in the 15th and 16th century and the era of colonisation and subjugation of indigenous peoples all around the world."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Mark Maslin and Simon Lewis, "Why the Anthropocene began with European colonisation, mass slavery and the ‘great dying’ of the 16th century". ', June 25, 2020
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anthropocene
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Anthropocene
7 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Anthropocene →
Related Quotes
"Through our predatory behaviors, systems of exploitation, and growth-oriented societies, we have lived in contradicti…"
"The geometric growth rate of humans is unprecedented and never in the history of the earth has a single species grown…"
"... the cause of the sixth mass extinction is a very different type of cataclysm: expansion of one element of biodive…"
"We are in an emergency situation in the Anthropocene epoch in which the disruption of the Earth system, particularly …"
"Driven by the Anthropocene engine, human population has grown exponentially, and individual societies have approached…"
"The Anthropocene makes for an easy story. Easy, because it does not challenge the naturalized inequalities, alienatio…"
"Colonel Kyd, an Englishman, had the following to say regarding general surgical skill in the subcontinent: (In) chiru…"
"Dr. H. Scott wrote the following letter on January 12, 1792, again on the subject of Indian surgery: In medicine I sh…"
"Barry Strauss’ excellent The Trojan War using conventional chronology, warns the reader that ‘most dating is relative…"
"The book encapsulating it was Centuries of Darkness in 1991. The authors were not fringe mavericks. Colin Renfrew, Pr…"