The Anthropocene Epoch
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. Chief Seattle Overview The Innocent: Christmas Dinner, (c) 2017 Elisabeth Sunday E ach passing day brings us closer to a planet that is no longer hospitable to life. This is an extraordinary moment in the history of the world. After millennia of life on earth, w e find ourselves in a global, environmental, state of emergency. This is a catastrophe of such magnitude, we find it difficult not only to measure, but to comprehend and accept. Due to the challenges we face, anything we can do as individuals, artists, or other, to raise consciousness— and help stem the decline of life on earth— is a critical step in the right direction. To do nothing, is to be complicit in our mutual destruction, and condemn our planet; ourselves, and our