The Anthropocene and the Importance of Human Activity

In your book you use a word that I had not been familiar with, but it's really foundational. The Anthropocene is understood to be a new geological epoch. We are now living in a geological epoch where human activity is primarily or exclusively responsible for what happens in the world. There is no longer any kind of clean, simple division between captive and domesticated animals on one hand, and free and wild animals on the otherhand. That just has profound implications,. Not only for the way the world is going to develop from here, but also for the kinds of responsibilities we plausibly have to take care of all of the animals who are now going to be affected by our activity whether we like