From the Greek anthropos for “human” and cene for “new,” this proposed term describes the current epoch of major human impact on Earth. This neologism is hotly contested—both by those who contend that we remain in the Holocene (as our official current geological epoch is termed), and by those who suggest that the term “Anthropocene” does not do enough to describe how human impact on the earth has been unevenly influenced by the distribution of power, capital, and time across the globe. Alternative suggestions include Capitalocene (in order to reflect capitalism’s responsibility for environmental devastation), Chthulucene (a future epoch where human and animal kinships are renewed in response to climate change), and the Plantationocene (see Plantation). See Davis & Todd, and Hall, who put the Anthropocene in temporal and decolonial contexts.