Why We Need New Words for Life in the Anthropocene

Analyzing the language we use to describe climate change is particularly urgent, according to Dr. Stibbe, as our words directly influence how we tackle it. For example, the neutral-sounding term “anthropogenic climate change” collapses human responsibility for the climate crisis into a neat, innocuous noun. “There’s no actual agents doing anything,

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“Moving away from an Anthropocene into a Symbiocene requires a biological, psychological, and sacred perspective in our foresight & futures thinking work.

Why? When we leave out the interconnected, vibrant, and emergent qualities of life in favor of only serving dominant systems of productivity, efficiency, and hyper-monetization, we fail to re

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At the moment Nature does not have a voice in the decisions we take that are scientifically proven to be driving climate breakdown and destroying biodiversity. Our view is that we have separated ourselves from Nature, and see ourselves as exceptional rather than interdependent with Nature and this is a root cause of our behaviour as a species towar... See more