Nature as such is a twleve-thousand-year-old human product

The ecological value of the term Nature is dangerously overrated, because Nature isn't just a term – it's something that happened to human-built space, demarcating human systems from Earth systems. Nature as such is a twelve-thousand-year-old human product, geological as well as discursive. Its wavy elegance was eventually revealed as inherently contingent and violent, as when in a seizure one's brain waves become smooth. Wash-rinse-repeat the agrilogistics and suddenly we reach a sipping point.

The Anthropocene doesn't destroy Nature. The Anthropocene is Nature in its toxic nightmare form. Nature is the latent form of the Anthropocene waiting to emerge as catastrophe.

Timothy Morton, Dark Ecology (Columbia University Press, 2016) pp. 58-59