Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations - Exploring Human Impact on Biodiversity | Perfect for Environmental Science Students & Conservation Researchers

This collection of essays provide a lot to think through the place of (and contextualizing of) human ethics, philosophy and ecological place in the Anthropocene. What's interesting is that not all of these essays are about tragedy, but some are in fact about how we continue to move forward with the species we share as we preserve ecological and cultural ties to each of them.Some of the essays are really slowed down but Michelle Bastian's essay on the interspecies knots of time will probably stay with me forever. It is to see the growth and demise of leatherback turtles through a reconceptualizing of time. Time not as an insensate ticking objecting, uniformly measured, but time as measured in the presence of interactions, encounters and events. Similarly, the essay on the Golden Lion Tamarin (and how the biopolitical determines which species get saved and how) raised the question around the ethical place of zoos and what their responsibilities to the wild are.