Remaking Nature
https://merangue.com/megns2xgb Carl Zimmer has a provocative story in Yale 360 that questions some conventional wisdom on exotic species. Alan Burdick’s terrific 2005 book tread similar ground.
As I see it, anything that enlarges our understanding of nature and our role in shaping it (as urban ecology has done in recent years), is a good thing.
https://udaan.org/ei3dr4fk.php
https://mandikaye.com/blog/uve2c1sk Great Q&A on exactly this subject in last month’s Scientific American: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-friend-to-aliens https://www.psicologialaboral.net/2024/08/07/2y0e8ve02 (paywalled, alas)
https://eloquentgushing.com/xmrlbczjpib