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Stewart Brand recently hosted Chris D. Thomas to talk at the Long Now Seminar about anthropocene speciation [0]. The premise is that current wild species are u
by snailletters 8y ago
Stewart Brand recently hosted Chris D. Thomas to talk at the Long Now Seminar about anthropocene speciation [0].
The premise is that current wild species are under severe duress due to changing environments, however nature is thriving in the age of extinction.
0. http://longnow.org/seminars/02018/jun/19/are-we-initiating-great-anthropocene-speciation-event/ http://longnow.org/seminars/02018/jun/19/are-we-initiating-g...
- cbkeller 8y agoThere's some recent discussion here: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6393/1080.2 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6393/1080.2 I don't know if the citations therein are cherry-picked, but oddly enough it seemed like mostly what you might call "public intellectuals" on the "it's not so bad" side and lower-profile ordinary lab/field scientists on the "doom and gloom" side - a bit of a reversal from the usual trope