The concept of the Anthropocene views human beings as subjectless agents, like a force of nature, its actions being directed not so much by political struggle as by an ungoverned, species-specific hive intelligence guided by a short-term pursuit of interests. This, on the one hand, exalts humankind to being an agent that possesses planetary powers, and, on the other hand, portrays humanity as a mass resembling a herd of lemmings that is in danger of being destroyed, the victim of its own mindlessness. This politically neutral image of humanity (or “mankind”) as the cause of the climate crisis recurs frequently in the rhetoric of environmental activism and politics that governs the mainstream, and which locates the problem in that same human’s relationship with nature or its habits of consumption. This generalizing language, however, conceals the power structures that underlie both the concept of humanity and the climate crisis.