In Kathleen Dean Moore’s interview with Mark Democker, Moore begins to discuss the urgency with which to approach climate change and how exactly future generations have a chance to stop it from completely obliterating the Earth. In the interview DeMocker says, “…Paul Crutzen proposes that the planet has entered a new geologic epoch he calls the ‘Anthropocene,’ meaning the ‘era of man…’ characterized… by mass extinction” to which Moore responds “Our generation is witnessing the end of the old era and the start of a new one, when human culture will determine the future of the earth” (3). This quote emphasized the power that humans have for the future and the fact that we have power at all. I find her point that the position humans are in now is one that man has never face before interesting, considering that although humans have not experienced it before, the Earth has. I also found several comparisons between Moore’s approach to climate change and Bill McKibbens’; McKibben sees the importance of humans taking action and how that is critical in determining the outcome of the future. In his the film “Do the Math” McKibben says “Very few people on Earth ever get to say, ‘I’m doing the most important thing I can be doing…’ but you guys get to say that…” (14). This quote amplifies the idea that everybody can get behind the fight that McKibben is presenting us with. With regard to climate change, both Moore and McKibben believe that this is the most crucial point in time to get involved in the movement and that, if we do it right, we could potentially change the outcome of the future for the better.
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