This chapter explores the ways in which the human characters in the Southern Reach and Borne series perceive, treat, and behave towards each other and the nonhuman. It examines these characters’ obsessive desire to control whatever they deem anomalous or inconvenient, their hierarchical separation from certain humans and nonhuman entities, and their disregard for human and nonhuman lives beyond their immediate value to them. The chapter then investigates the dark ecological consequences of these actions which are carried out at the expense of the characters’ own survival. Drawing on the Anthropocene discourse and the concepts of epochal and deep histories, it considers how things have gone wrong and offers insight into heated contemporary debates on the problems of anthropogenic climate change.