By Morten Tønnessen, Kristin Armstrong Oma, Silver Rattasepp (eds.)
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The time period “Anthropocene”, the period of mankind, is more and more getting used as a systematic designation for the present geological epoch. the reason is, the human species now dominates ecosystems all over the world, and impacts nature in a fashion that competitors ordinary forces in importance and scale. Thinking approximately Animals within the Age of the Anthropocene offers a dozen chapters that tackle the position and position of animals during this epoch characterised by means of anthropogenic (human-made) environmental switch. whereas a few chapters describe our effect at the dwelling stipulations of animals, others query traditional rules approximately human exceptionalism, and tension the complicated cognitive and different skills of animals. The Anthropocene inspiration forces us to reconsider our relation to nature and to animals, and to significantly consider our personal function and position on the earth, as a species. Nature isn't what it was once. Nor are the lives of animals as they was once earlier than mankind´s upward push to worldwide ecological prominence. do we ultimately discover ways to dwell with animals, instead of inflicting extinction and ecological mayhem?
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Each human is thus a microcosmic ecosystem working as large collective being, containing sedimented genetic memory, and symbiotically interacting with other organisms all the time. Indeed, as Jesper Hoffmeyer explains, “every single life-form in existence today has, lodged inside its genetic material, the sinuous trail of its evolutionary past harking all the way back to the dawn of life—while it is itself busy incorporating the experiences of today into the future” (Hoffmeyer 1996, 13). Dynamically functioning within (the innenwelt) as well as outside each animal body (the umwelt) are continual meaningful communications with and responses to the environment around it.
2014, 65) As Malm and Hornborg suggest, this 1,000-fold discrepancy in a human’s environmental impact, depending on where and when the individual was born, makes it questionable to consider the entire species of humans culpable and the referent of the term Anthropocene. Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything, lays the blame for the relatively sudden negative changes to the climate on capitalism. She writes, “We are stuck because the actions that would give us the best chance of averting catastrophe—and would benefit the vast majority— are extremely threatening to an elite minority that has a stranglehold over our economy, our political process, and most of our major media outlets” (Klein 2014, 18).
Such may be an extreme description of blurred identities between apes and their human associates, but both Savage-Rumbaugh and Kanzi have endured painful changes in recent years. Kanzi’s life has been completely interrelated with humans in a specialized environment, so that he must have experienced great sadness when he lost his central human companion at the age of thirty-four when Savage-Rumbaugh departed from the Great Ape Trust. We cannot enter the world of even a linguistically gifted bi-cultural chimpanzee or bonobo or gorilla to know exactly what such psychic damage might be like, but novelist Karen Joy Fowler has attempted to suggest its intensity and sadness in her recent novel, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (2013; see also McAdam 2014).
