PG #25: We’re in this together

Agency in the anthropocene

As we tick off another Gregorian Calendar year, we wanted to kickstart this lap of the sun with a newsletter about agency – that is, the choices and actions that people make.

Scientists have proposed that the Earth has entered a new geological epoch, known as the Anthropocene, in which humanity has displaced the sun as the most dominant force on the climate and environment.

When faced with scales like epochs and planets, it can be difficult to know how to act, and what to do, here and now. So this newsletter is filled with examples of humans making choices, pushing back against the seemingly inevitable, and designing better environments for themselves and others.

We hope it inspires you to make your own changes and take a stand, locally and with others.

Happy 2019 from all of us here at Paper Giant. We're in this together.