Second nature : scenes from a world remade

Rich, Nathaniel 1980- (author.).

Summary: We live at a time in which scientists race to reanimate extinct beasts, our most essential ecosystems require monumental engineering projects to survive, chicken breasts grow in test tubes, and multinational corporations conspire to poison the blood of every living creature. No rock, leaf, or cubic foot of air on Earth has escaped humanity's signature. The old distinctions--between natural and artificial, dystopia and utopia, science fiction and science fact--have blurred, losing all meaning. We inhabit an uncanny landscape of our own creation. In Second Nature, ordinary people make desperate efforts to preserve their humanity in a world that seems increasingly alien. Their stories--obsessive, intimate, and deeply reported--point the way to a new kind of environmental literature, in which dramatic narrative helps us to understand our place in a reality that resembles nothing human beings have known.

Record details

ISBN: 0374106037
ISBN: 9780374106034
Physical Description: 288 pages ; 22 cm
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: Strange victory -- Crime scene. Dark waters ; The wasting ; Here come the warm jets -- Season of disbelief. Frankenstein in the lower ninth ; Chickens without their heads cut off ; Aspen saves the world -- As gods. Pigeon apocalypse. Bayou bonjour: Oil and water is the fabric of your town; Barataria; The forest machine ; The immortal jellyfish ; Green rabbit.