Reading Le Guin’s The Word for World is Forest as a registration of the Anthropocene

I wrote this first class essay, published in Warwick Uncanny, following the eco-critical section of Warwick's Modes of Reading module, which has since inspired a great interest for the topic. My essay focuses on the planet Athshe in 'The Word for World is Forest', and how humanity uses its resources due to over-exploitation of its own. I felt this essay was important to write due to the similarities between the state of Earth in the novel and the state of our own Earth, with themes of species extinction and deforestation not so distinct from our own reality.