I’m thinking of ~finishing a draft for draft amnesty that I was writing a while ago about the future of nature. From speaking with conservationists, I got the impression that many were focused on the past (restoring the past, obligations to the long history of evolution etc...) Because of the urgency of their task, I didn’t see as much focus on the future.
The post I am writing goes through a few vignettes of possible futures for the wild, including:
Suffering abolition. Gene drives to remove sources of suffering, ecosystem design etc...
Biodiversity maximalism: there are many ways we could increase biodiversity if we wanted to, beyond levels present today or in the past. When people say they care about biodiversity, they don’t seem to care about this. This section might be a reductio of those arguments.
Extending political categories (self determination, citizenship) to wild animals (as in Zoopolis)
Covering our tracks: this would be a description of my understanding of the conservationist’s focus.
I’m thinking of ~finishing a draft for draft amnesty that I was writing a while ago about the future of nature. From speaking with conservationists, I got the impression that many were focused on the past (restoring the past, obligations to the long history of evolution etc...) Because of the urgency of their task, I didn’t see as much focus on the future.
The post I am writing goes through a few vignettes of possible futures for the wild, including:
Suffering abolition. Gene drives to remove sources of suffering, ecosystem design etc...
Biodiversity maximalism: there are many ways we could increase biodiversity if we wanted to, beyond levels present today or in the past. When people say they care about biodiversity, they don’t seem to care about this. This section might be a reductio of those arguments.
Extending political categories (self determination, citizenship) to wild animals (as in Zoopolis)
Covering our tracks: this would be a description of my understanding of the conservationist’s focus.