Nature may increasingly be human made, but humans have not only lost control of this nature, making and unmaking; we have increasingly lost the ability to tell the difference between our own world and the natural worlds we make and destroy. —Nils Bubandt
According to the best empirical evidence we have, observed present trends indicate that the future we face is one of accelerating planetary transformation, with catastrophic consequences for human society. At the same time, this future is radically unknowable. —Roy Scranton
NOTES
—Photos by DB, Klamath County US Highway 97, October 2026: Reflextions on a Road Trip to Modoc County CA.
—Nils Bubandt from the essay "Haunted Geologies: Spirits, Stones, and the Necropolitics of the Anthropocene" in Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet (2017)
—Roy Scranton in IMPASSE: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress (2025)
