Two years ago the literary environmentalist Robert Macfarlane published an influential essay in the Guardian, “Generation Anthropocene: How Humans Have Altered the Planet Forever” -

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/01/generation-anthropocene-altered-planet-for-ever

and a followup roundtable was convened by the Open Library of Humanities, available here -

https://olh.openlibhums.org/articles/10.16995/olh.153/