Rolston review of Preston, The Synthetic Age
Date
2018
Authors
Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
Philosophy Documentation Center, publisher
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Abstract
Preston has a new worldview, convinced "that humans have utterly transformed the earth" and have a "startling synthetic future." But he should have been more forceful about Anthropocene abuses of power. Further, his discussion of the value of wildness is relegated to a brief, puzzling postscript.
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Summer 2018.
Rolston reviews Christopher J. Preston's the Synthetic Age: Outdesigning Evolution, Resurrecting Species, and Reengingeering Our World, published by MIT Press, 2018.
Rolston reviews Christopher J. Preston's the Synthetic Age: Outdesigning Evolution, Resurrecting Species, and Reengingeering Our World, published by MIT Press, 2018.
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Subject
synthetic age
Anthropocene Epoch
symbiotic age
wildness
ecosystems
future Earth