Second Nature

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From the author of Losing Earth, a deeply reported and beautifully told exploration of our post-natural worldWe live in a world in which scientists are actively trying to bring back prehistoric beasts, in which our most essential and complex ecosystems demand monumental engineering projects to survive, in which immortal jellyfish threaten to fill and overrun the oceans, in which iconic companies that have long been at the cultural and economic center of their communities are poisoning the very people who make up those communities. We are obsessed with words like "organic" and "sustainable, " but the fact is that the separation between natural and artificial is obsolete, too intertwined to mean anything. It's not science fiction, it's not the future. It's not dystopia, it's not utopia. It's the world we live in. It's time we reckoned with it. From Odds Against Tomorrow to Losing Earth to the film Dark Waters (adapted from the first chapter of this book), Nathaniel Rich's stories have come to define the way we think of contemporary ecological narrative. In Second Nature, he asks what it means to live in an era of terrible responsibility. The question is no longer, How do we return to the world that we've lost? It is, What world do we want to create in its place?