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Eco-Solidarity: Ecclesiology en Conjunto in the Anthropocene Epoch

Since 2000, when it was proposed by the Nobel-prize winning chemist Paul Crutzen, the notion of the Anthropocene epoch has seemed to many to be an apt description of the startling ecological context in which we live. The concept of the Anthropocene suggests that since the end of the eighteenth century our world has entered a new age in which human agency, rather than geological power, is the defining force behind global change. For some, the Anthropocene straightforwardly describes a moral crisis: that humankind has become the defining ecological force is wrong in itself. For others, myself included, while the fact of the Anthropocene is certainly troubling, it is more appropriately seen as a question or challenge: How does it change our morality? How ought we act in this new context, under these unprecedented conditions? And what does it mean to be the church under such conditions? How does the recognition of humanity’s ubiquitous impact and widespread agency affect what it means to be Christ’s body in the world? One of the key moral challenges of this new epoch is scale. In what Stephen Gardiner describes as a “perfect moral storm,” climate change, the paradigmatic issue of the Anthropocene, scatters agency and impact, cause and effect, across continents and generations.1 The global scale of climate change and its intergenerational character confound our moral sensibilities and highlight our limitations: if we are bad at addressing the needs of our neighbors, we are far worse at addressing those of unseen millions, and virtually incapable even of adequately