Valuing Naturalness in the “Anthropocene” Now More than Ever重视自然的“人类世”现在比以往任何时候.pptVIP

Note: That means ? relatively wild; a lot. Ocean 1/3 more acid than used to be (1700) Use 35% net primary productivity of plants Cosmopolitan ecosystems Affecting biogeochemical cycles: Carbon, nitrogen and water cycles Fix more nitrogen than all other terrestrial sources combined * Ellis is the most extreme AME advocate * Not just Ellis promoting AME and idea of humans as creators. Others agree. These 4 are main AME advocates (in addition to Ellis) Emma Marris is science writer and wrote “Rambunctious Garden” very important provocative book that lays out many of ideas I attribute to AME Peter Kareiva, is chief scientist for Nature Conservancy and one of the most important critics of traditional env. Joe Mascaro is post-doc at Stanford’s “Global Ecology Department” Andrew Revkin, NY Times science reporter who runs its Dot Earth Blog Our own Allen Thompson might also belong here? * McKibben is not an AME supporter by any means But his end of nature language helped fuel those ideas. * Anthropocene boosters talk as if humans had used chemistry, synthetic biology, and manufacturing technology to construct the entire planet That we’ve influenced these things, does not mean they are human forces Like Locke’s labor theory of value creating 99% of value of nature by our labor Mckibben: “were still mostly living off the fat of the incredibly fecund land we were born onto, even as we trash it.” Death shows we are not in charge: “We have no dominion over the wild darkness that surrounds us. It is everywhere, under our feet, in the air we breathe” That we are animals shows nature still present; embodied, and so nature works on us too Other side: What about gardens, flowers, thousands of selectively bred plants? Marris 118: Ellis “today the reason that trees grow in a place or not is mostly up to people” But this ignores that growth of trees is a process nature created; virtually all the processes inside even GE trees are natural processes * Narcissism: Exces