Love in the Time of Extinctions

Abstract

The Anthropocene era -- considered by the majority of scientists to have begun with the late-19th-century Industrial Revolution -- designates a new geological era characterized by the impacts of humans upon the Earth, most tragically demonstrated in the extinction of other life forms at a rate exponentially greater than ever in the history of the planet. It has been estimated that, though we know how to protect the vast majority of the Earth's flora & fauna, the "political or social will" to do so is lacking. Focusing on the case of Central Australia, where the rate of mammalian extinctions is the highest in the modern world, the need for collaboration between the sciences & humanities & between Western & indigenous knowledge in efforts to protect endangered species is discussed. References. K. Hyatt Stewart