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    Leading and misleading metaphors: from organism to Anthropocene
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2018-05-03) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker; Colorado State University, producer
    Holmes Rolston presents appreciative and critical remarks at a symposium, After the Death of Nature, held at the University of California, Berkeley, on May 2-3, 2018, celebrating the life and work of Carolyn Merchant, an ecofeminist philosopher. Rolston's remarks, under the theme: "Leading and Misleading Metaphors: From Organism to Anthropocene," recognize her insights into how the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment featured the control of nature, bringing "the death of nature." A once nurturing mother earth, became inert and mechanical, manipulated by industry and agriculture. Strident recent environmentalists have been celebrating our entering the Anthropocene Epoch, boldly embracing perpetual enlargement of the bounds of the human empire. We are urged to become planetary managers, geo-engineers, rebuilding the Earth better to serve human needs. Rolston revisits Carolyn Merchant in the prospect of an Anthropocene Epoch. This symposium launches the publication of a Festschrift on Merchant, edited by Kenneth Worthy, Elizabeth Allison, and Whitney A. Bauman, After the Death of Nature, Routledge, 2019, in which Rolston's paper is included.
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    Technology and/or nature: denatured/renatured/engineered/artifacted life?
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2016-02-15) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker
    In our high-tech world, do we live at the end of nature? Is the technosphere replacing the biosphere? Can humans control their genetically inherited Pleistocene appetites in an Anthropocene Epoch? Is experience of the urban, rural, and wild a three-dimensional life, with life focused on fewer dimensions under-privileged? Do we, ought we, wish to live on an engineered planet? Would this fulfill human destiny or display human arrogance, failing to embrace our home planet in care and wonder? True, we must become civilized. Be a resident on your landscape. True, the future holds advancing technology. But equally: we do not want to live a denatured life, on a denatured planet.
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    The Anthropocene! Beyond the natural? - OSU
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2017-03-16) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker; Oregon State Universtiy, producer
    We are now entering the Anthropocene Epoch, so runs a recent enthusiastic claim. Humans can and ought go beyond the natural and powerfully engineer a better planet, managing for climate change, building new ecosystems for a more prosperous future. Perhaps the Anthropocene is inevitable. But: Rejoice? Accommodate? Accept it, alas? Perhaps the wiser, more ethical course is not so much beyond as keeping the natural in symbiosis with humans. Enter the Semi-Anthropocene! Basically Natural! Carefully!
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    The Anthropocene! Beyond the natural? - UWSP
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2017-04-28) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker; University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, producer
    We are now entering the Anthropocene Epoch, so runs a recent enthusiastic claim. Humans can and ought go beyond the natural and powerfully engineer a better planet, managing for climate change, building new ecosystems for a more prosperous future. Perhaps the Anthropocene is inevitable. But: Rejoice? Accommodate? Accept it, alas? Perhaps the wiser, more ethical course is not so much beyond as keeping the natural in symbiosis with humans. Enter the Semi-Anthropocene! Basically Natural! Carefully!
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    Wonderland Earth in the Anthropocene Epoch (University of Mary Washington)
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2018-04) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker; Mikhalevsky, Nina, speaker; Matzke, Jason, speaker; Colorado State University, producer
    This lecture by Holmes Rolston III was the keynote lecture at a conference, Wild Places, Natural Spaces, the fourteenth annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Environment, Space, and Place, at the University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia, on April 27-29, 2018. Rolston asks about (1) Earth as a wonderland planet, about (2) humans as the wonder of wonders on Earth. He continues (3) wondering about Anthropocene humans and their efforts to build a (4) managed planet bringing about the end of nature. He worries that this is (5) Anthropocene arrogance, and recommends, instead that these (6) wonderful humans should consider themselves incarnate on and caring for their wonderland Earth.
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    Wonderland Earth in the Anthropocene Epoch (Yale University)
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2020-10-23) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker; Tucker, Mary Evelyn, speaker; Murray, Tom, moderator; Center for Environmental Communication, Yale University, videographer
    "Wonderland Earth in the Anthropocene Epoch," Rolston Zoom lecture and discussion sponsored by Yale University Center for Environmental Communication, October 23, 2020. Moderated by Tom Murray, Speaker Coordinator. Rolston introduced by Mary Evelyn Tucker, Co-Director of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, also sponsoring the seminar. Earth as the wonderland planet, humans as a wonder on Earth, Anthropocene humans, managed planet and end of nature. Anthopocene arrogance. Wonderful humans incarnate on wonderland Earth.