The Anthropocene marks the confluence of scientific and humanistic research in a manner rarely witnessed in the contemporary period. The Darwinian revolution's impact on philosophy and literary studies offers a fair analogy.  Nomnetheless, the critical terrain is as exciting as it is challenging, not least because of the disciplinary history of geology as a science that originates in, and continues to evince ideologies and assurances of, empire. Scholars note that “Environmental humanists play two roles with respect to the geoscientific claims they are reacting to: the roles of ‘inventor-discloser’ or ‘deconstructor-critic.’ (Noel Castree). Others argue that “Although the idea of the Anthropocene originated in the earth sciences, there have been increasing calls for questions about the Anthropocene to be addressed by pan-disciplinary groups… We read the data to suggest that barriers to a broadly interdisciplinary study of the Anthropocene are high, but we are also able to identify some areas of common ground” (Carlos Santana et al). In the Environmental Humanities some of these conundrums was broached first by the postcolonial historian Dipesh Chakrabarty, whose essay, “The Climate of History: Four Theses” (2009), groundbreaking in many respects. His "Four Theses" are as follows: “Philosophers and students of history have often displayed a conscious tendency to separate human history... from natural history... Anthropogenic explanations of climate change challenge this separation”; "“We are compelled to recognize that human beings have, collectively, become a geophysical force... like the cyanobacteria that breathed oxygen into our atmosphere... or the asteroid that triggered the extinction of the dinosaurs”; The Anthropocene's "geological hypothesis requires us to put global histories of capital in conversation with the species history of humans... colonial expansion and capitalist accumulation produced both historical inequalities and locked in future climate instability;” and finally, “The crisis of climate change appeals to our sense of human universals while challenging at the same time our capacity for historical understanding.”