Abstract

Two major questions arise when we want to think about education in the Anthropocene that is also education for the Anthropocene. Firstly, as the urgency of the situation has become readily apparent (radical decisions need to be made within the space of the next few years), does it make sense to continue to invest in the long-term process of education (which takes decades to bear fruit)? Then, it is a matter of knowing… what it is important to know. There is undoubtedly a need to consider “knowledge of the Anthropocene,” which allows us to understand its mechanisms, from the functioning of the Earth system to the economic system—thus, transversal and complex knowledge. But also—and this is perhaps even more difficult—we need to take charge of our ways of being, which are deeply involved in this phenomenon (what we do and which contributes, through consumption, to the depletion of the world; what we do not do and what we could do that would get us out of this trap).