Dealing with problems of the Anthropocene is a complex effort with different strategies and many protagonists in which commitment, timing and cooperation are essential. The aim of this paper is to provide insights for new mindsets to deal with complex sustainability proposing these findings as a basis for future economics. This way we hope to reorientate people’s cultural ethos (“Sittlichkeit”) by turning it from the precepts of exploitive and self-exploitive, individualistic goals centered around material needs and wants, to cooperative skills of voluntary engagement in caring activities supporting the well-being of both human and non-human lives. At the core of this endeavor lies the posthumanist critique of human exceptionalism and capitalist hegemony, the feminist ethics of care and the attempt to enlarge the conception of caring economics toward the idea of a care-centered economy. The analysis presented here is based mostly on insights from the works of Karl Polanyi, Jason Moore, Rosi Braidotti, Nancy Folbre, Giorgos Kallis and considers that many different approaches of the Anthropocene assembled in the ecopolitical narratives of Green New Deal and Degrowth can communicate with each other within a larger ethical theory of care.