In this way, the Anthropocene discourse is being enrolled into projects of ever-increasing control and management: the scale of the impacts, the marks, demands an equivalent grandiosity in terms of mastery, and so we get projects to geoengineer the climate and remake Earth’s prehistoric ecosystems. These are projects grounded in what Gerda Roelvink and Magdalena Zolkos (2015, 47) have called a “hyper-humanism which seeks to manage and ultimately master
