#kolbert

[my-quirk-is-fred]

Ayyyyy it’s Kolbert!

[shakespearenews]

Please Don’t Ask Elizabeth Kolbert How She Organizes Her Books

“I don’t. Often this is a problem.”

What books are you embarrassed not to have read yet?

In David Lodge’s academic novel “Changing Places,” the members of the English department play a game called “Humiliation.” Participants are supposed to name a book they haven’t read, but that they imagine most other members of the department have. One player names “Hamlet.” He wins the game but loses his job.

[noosphe-re]

From the standpoint of the world’s biota, global travel represents a radically new phenomenon and, at the same time, a replay of the very old. The drifting apart of the continents that Wegener deduced from the fossil record is now being reversed—another way in which humans are running geologic history backward and at high speed. Think of it as a souped-up version of plate tectonics, minus the plates. By transporting Asian species to North America, and North American species to Australia, and Australian species to Africa, and European species to Antarctica, we are, in effect, reassembling the world into one enormous supercontinent—what biologists sometimes refer to as the New Pangaea.

Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

[environmental-architecture]

Biophilia. Biofilia.

Word of the week. Palabra de la semana.

Source / Fuente: ‘El hombre en el Antropoceno’/ “Man in the Anthropocene”: Lecture and presentation ceremony of the 4th Biophilia Award for Environmental Communication to Elizabeth Kolbert

[angel225sstuff]

I fucking love this and I will not post a lot so....

[selahb00]

the ignorant power of man

“The Anthropocene is usually said to have begun with the industrial revolution, or perhaps even later, with the explosive growth in population that followed World War II. By this account, it’s with the introduction of modern technologies - turbines, railroads, chainsaws - that humans become a world-altering force. But the megafauna extinction suggests otherwise. Before humans emerged on the scene, being large and slow to reproduce was a highly successful strategy, and outsized creatures dominated the planet. Then, in what amounts to a geologic instant, this strategy became a loser’s game. And so it remains today, which is why elephants and bears and big cats are in so much trouble... meanwhile, eliminating the megafauna didn’t just eliminate the megafauna; in Australia at least it set it set off an ecological cascade that transformed the landscape. Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear he ever really did” (Kolbert, 234 -235).

How can we better coexist with the rest of nature? Our cognitive function causes us to identify as superior, as dominant over the rest of creation. Undeniably, we have an upper hand - but what is our gesture?

[outsiderlookinginward]

Pause for thought: Elizabeth Kolbert

Pause for thought: Elizabeth Kolbert

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