Nathaniel Rich on Remaking Nature and Living with Uncertainty
Nathaniel Rich (NR): I wasn’t drawn to the stories that became Second Nature by any “environmental” aspect as much as a sense of the uncanny. These are stories that, upon first encounter, I found deeply unsettling: how the Lower Ninth Ward, post-Katrina, became a highly-prized laboratory for disaster ecologists from all over the world; the billion-dollar effort to mass produce chicken meat in laboratories; efforts to invent man-made species to replace animals we’ve driven to extinction. It was only after reporting the stories that I began to see the connections between them. I realiz...
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