In an age where climatic disruption has become the new norm, it seems fitting to admit that recognising global warming requires much more than assenting to scientific data. As Adam Trexler notes in his book Anthropocene Fictions, the recognition of global warming brings with it the recognition of human implication in the geological and climatological transformation of our planet. But how to make that recognition comprehensive to the contemporary human imagination?

During the last decade the term Anthropocene has gained a lot of media attention. Although the term was first coined during the 1980s, it didn’t make it into popular culture until the year 2000, when atmospheric chemist and Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen popularised the term, transforming it into the environmental buzzword that it is today.