Clive Hamilton. Defiant Earth: The Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene

Emersonian Virtues of the Anthropocene: Faith, Hope, and Love

“…Some, like Clive Hamilton, insist that the Anthropocene marks a dramatic departure from what has gone before. He claims that those who see it “as no more than a development of what they already know, obscur[e] and deflat[e] its profound significance” (Hamilton ; Ruder ). Others, such as Erle Ellis and Andrew M. Bauer, argue that the “strident debate about the Anthropocene's chronological boundaries arises because its periodization forces an arbitrary break in what is a long‐enduring process of human alterations of environments” (Bauer and Ellis ).…”