The Earth has reached a tipping point.Runaway climate change, the sixth great extinction of planetary life, the acidification of the oceans—all point toward an era of unprecedented turbulence in humanity’s relationship within the web of life. But just what is that relationship, & how do we make sense of this extraordinary transition?Anthropocene or Capitalocene?offers answers to these questions from a dynamic group of leading critical scholars. They challenge the theory & history offered by the most significant environmental concept of our times: theAnthropocene. But are we living in theAnthropocene, literally the“Age of Man”? Is a different response more compelling, & better suited to the strange—& often terrifying—times in which we live?The contributors to this book diagnose the problems ofAnthropocenethinking & propose an alternative: the global crises of the twenty-first century are rooted in theCapitalocene, theAge of Capital.Anthropocene or Capitalocene?offers a series of provocative essays on nature & power, humanity, and capitalism. Including both well-established voices & younger scholars, the book challenges the conventional practice of dividing historical change & contemporary reality into“Nature”&“Society,”demonstrating the possibilities offered by a more nuanced & connective view of human environment-making, joined at every step with & within the biosphere.In distinct registers, the authors frame their discussions within a politics of hope that signal the possibilities fortranscending capitalism, broadly understood as a“world-ecology”that joins nature, capital, & power as a historically evolving whole.Contributorsinclude Jason W. Moore, Eileen Crist, Donna J. Haraway, Justin McBrien, Elmar Altvater, Daniel Hartley, & Christian Parenti.