Anthropocene

The Anthropocene is a period of two hundred to four hundred years (depending on who is counting) during which a series of cap­i­tal­ist, communist, technological, militarist, scientific, and Christian practices became major geological forces that helped to reshape some of ­[...] nonhuman forces [a series of temporal force fields, such as climatepatterns, drought zones, the ocean con­vey­or system, species evolution, glacier flows, and hurricanes that exhibit self-­organ­izing capacities to varying degrees and that impinge upon each other and ­human life in numerous ways].-- William E. Connolly, Facing the Planetary