Naming the era Anthropocene wrongly attributes capitalist relations to humanity as a whole.

Evidence

Countless writers and theorists on the Left, including many who would otherwise agree with the necessity of actively addressing ecological devastation, have argued that the popular use of Anthropocene is riddled with problems—ones that may not inherently be in the term itself but are foundational when Anthropocene becomes, as it almost always does, a term to describe more than a geological age. If one presumes Anthropocene to indicate how our geological era is solely or mostly determined by human activity, as the term is often understood, then one accepts a strong separation between “man” and “nature,” for instance, and sees the current relation between these two entities as slowly leading to doom and destruction. In this interpretation, “man” is essentially hostile to (and outside of) “nature.” Calling the present age the Anthropocene, some have argued, equates “humanity” with a set of relations that are more accurately attributed to particular arrangements of capitalism, not humanity as such. — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 346

Categorization

• XREF: Locates the Anthropocene/Capitalocene/Plantationocene debate that the Corpocene term extends — needed background for teaching the coinage.