Should We Welcome the Anthropocene?

Ken Hiltner (English and Environmental Studies, EHC Director, UCSB), October 30, 2014.

While it is often suggested that we should recoil from the Anthropocene and attempt to return the planet to a state comparable to what it was before widescale anthropogenic change, in this provocative talk Ken Hiltner asks whether we should instead welcome the Anthropocene (more).