I. Introduction Since it first appeared a few years ago, the notion of the Anthropocene has been gaining ground in the field of environmental studies and seems now to be everywhere. Admittedly, the label is appealing, and the news it communicates is dramatic. The success, then, seems justified. However, there is something else. The Anthropocene might just be what we were waiting for, namely, a notion able to encompass and express a number of shared intuitions about the human place in the world and the state of the socionatural relations. In that regard, the Anthropocene provides a framework for discussing…