The Radiant Glory of the Anthropocene explores the 6th mass extinction through the lens of the human experience of joy and anguish. Mass extinction is an abstract concept that can only be understood with human intellect rather than direct experience. This has no bearing on the reality of the situation. However, it does mean that without seeking out the information and contemplating it, we can live in a totally human-created, human-centric environment that has no relation to the ecology that was destroyed in order for that environment to exist. Our direct experience can be void of the truth of ecological destruction and mass extinction.
