You can find this week's blog post at The Conversation U.S. It is a reflection on what Earth Day will mean in a synthetic age.
To Rise From the Dead
“Extinction,” as they say, “is forever.” It is the threat that has launched a thousand environmental campaigns. Despite being the ultimate fate of all species, extinction remains universally appalling in its finality. The thought of extinction serves as a chilling reference point for almost all conservation thinking. Technologies being developed in the emerging Plastocene epoch …