"The Great Disruption"
A term used by Paul Gilding for the period we are in now. According to him it started in 2008.
The Great Disruption (Paul Gilding).
"It’s time to stop just worrying about climate change, says Paul Gilding. We need instead to brace for impact because global crisis is no longer avoidable. This Great Disruption started in 2008, with spiking food and oil prices and dramatic ecological changes, such as the melting ice caps. It is not simply about fossil fuels and carbon footprints. We have come to the end of Economic Growth, Version 1.0, a world economy based on consumption and waste, where we lived beyond the means of our planet’s ecosystems and resources."
-- from the description of the book "The Great Disruption" (2011).