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Podcast: Peculiar Book Club Podcast
Episode: Go Back to the FUTURE (of life on Earth) with Rob Dunn!
Description: What if the world went on without us? Guess what. It will.
A leading# ecologist argues that if humankind is to survive on a fragile planet, we must understand and obey its iron laws
Our species has amassed unprecedented knowledge of #nature, which we have tried to use to seize control of life and bend the planet to our will. In A Natural History of the Future, biologist Rob Dunn argues that such efforts are futile. We may see ourselves as life’s overlords, but we are instead at its mercy. In the evolution of antibiotic resistance, the power of n...