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Nathaniel Rich, Ryan Phelan, Ben Novak: Second Nature: Green Rabbits, Passenger Pigeons, Cloned Ferrets, and the Birth of a New Ecology

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A Book Review - A Novel About Nature

The basic problem i was trying to investigate is that, oow, there's nothing natural about the natural world any more than anything that we describe a as nature or wilderness. And it's been really interesting, as one reads through it, connecting those dots in how we intervene in nature. The second section of stories is about people who are navigating the weirdness, or the any quality, of our reality to day. and the final section m is about peopleo like yourselves, who are tryingm as best as they can to use some of these incredibly powerful technologies am that we've resculptered the planet.

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