In the article “Saving Nature in the Anthropocene,” environmentalist James D. Proctor proposes a new approach to environmentalism that involves “counting beyond two” in the Anthropocene story (Proctor, 90). In the past decade, several scholarly articles and books have been published concerning the Anthropocene; however, Maldonado observes that many of these contradicting views on the human-nature structure of the Anthropocene. As a result, he assesses the validity, or invalidity, of these arguments in order to make his own conclusions on the nature of the Anthropocene in the context of environmentalism. Maldonado constructs his argument by reviewing six books that acknowledge nature at the heart of environmentalism. Three of these books separate
