Plantationocene
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Definitions
- 1 The current geological epoch, understood as having been created by the effects of large-scale monocropping. uncommon
"People joined the bumptious fray early and dynamically, even before they/we were critters who were later named Homo sapiens. But I think the issues about naming relevant to the Anthropocene, Plantationocene, or Capitalocene have to do with scale, rate/speed, synchronicity, and complexity."
Example
More examples"People joined the bumptious fray early and dynamically, even before they/we were critters who were later named Homo sapiens. But I think the issues about naming relevant to the Anthropocene, Plantationocene, or Capitalocene have to do with scale, rate/speed, synchronicity, and complexity."
Etymology
Coined by American science and technology studies scholar Donna Haraway and others in 2014, from plantation + -cene.
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