An on line discussion of books that have been or are currently being read by members of the Audubon Naturalist Society Conservation Philosophy Reading Group. We choose books, old and new, that collectively constitute the intellectual underpinnings of conservation philosophy.
Jan 2, 2023 - A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us About the Destiny of the Human Species, by Rob Dunn
I searched Rob Dunn on You Tube and found several interesting videos, including one of a "Nat Talk" with the same title as the book we are reading (see link on this post). The person who introduced him pointed out that while they were both graduate students in ecology at Univ of Connecticut, Rob won the Wallace Stevens creative writing award four years in a row. Having read the first six chapters of Natural History of the Future, I can believe it. I was tickled to learn about this precedent for what one of the characters in my novel does while attending JoHopIE,a fictional Institute for Environmentalism in Maryland.
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I searched Rob Dunn on You Tube and found several interesting videos, including one of a "Nat Talk" with the same title as the book we are reading (see link on this post). The person who introduced him pointed out that while they were both graduate students in ecology at Univ of Connecticut, Rob won the Wallace Stevens creative writing award four years in a row. Having read the first six chapters of Natural History of the Future, I can believe it. I was tickled to learn about this precedent for what one of the characters in my novel does while attending JoHopIE,a fictional Institute for Environmentalism in Maryland.
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