This essay explores the ambivalences of care while developing conceptual links between social and ecological care. Drawing on contemporary ecological activism as well as feminist and anti-racism perspectives, it shows how theories and practices of care focusing on interdependence and inequality problematize the Anthropocene as a discourse that foregrounds the impact of an undifferentiated human species on planetary processes. The essay contributes to rethinking care as a way of engaging in the world to make it habitable again.