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Tag: Plastocene

Posted on August 18, 2017August 24, 2017

From Atom to Atmosphere

The short essays that will appear on this page are designed to help with some big choices. They concern decisions that, if we don’t make them ourselves, will be made for us by technologists, entrepreneurs, and the marketplace. These decisions are about what sort of world we want to inhabit, decisions demanded by the unprecedented …

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Topics

  • aesthetics
  • Alaska
  • Albert Borgmann
  • anthropocene
  • Arctic
  • batteries
  • bears
  • biodiversity
  • biotechnology
  • bison
  • Blackfeet
  • carbon capture
  • climate
  • Climate Change
  • Climate Engineering
  • cloning
  • cloud brightening
  • CRISPR
  • de-extinction
  • deextinction
  • earth systems
  • ecology
  • electric vehicles
  • ethics
  • extinction
  • fire
  • flood
  • food
  • forests
  • gardening
  • Gene Drives
  • heat
  • hurricane
  • Italy
  • justice
  • lynx
  • Mark Zuckerberg
  • Montana
  • Nanotechnology
  • nature
  • oceans
  • owls
  • passenger pigeon
  • peregrine falcon
  • philosophy
  • plastic
  • Plastocene
  • pollution
  • Pope Francis
  • primates
  • recovery
  • restoration
  • Rewilding
  • Rocky Mountains
  • salmon
  • sea otters
  • ships
  • snow
  • solar panels
  • solar radiation management
  • Sussex
  • Synthetic Age
  • Synthetic Biology
  • tallgrass prairie
  • technology
  • Tenacious Beasts
  • Tesla
  • Tim Cook
  • transportation
  • whales
  • wildlife
  • wind turbines
  • winter
  • wolves
  • Yellowstone

the author

Christopher J. Preston is a writer, a professor of philosophy, and a one-time commercial fisherman who is obsessed with the sight of freshly falling snow. The most inflated title he ever possessed was Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the Ethics of the Anthropocene.

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