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Rolston review of Preston, The Synthetic Age

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.

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synthetic age
symbiotic age
wildness
ecosystems
Anthropocene Epoch
future Earth

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