We live in a particularly challenging and ambiguous moment in human environmental history. It would appear that today no region of the world remains free from an array of fundamentally serious ecological threats. We used to think that places such as the polar regions or uncharted areas of the wet tropics could claim a degree of invulnerability to major human environmental impacts. The spectors of global atmospheric change, ever more ingenious forms of human encroachment, and developments in extraction technological, however, have largely eliminated such comforting thoughts. Perhaps only the newly discovered deep-sea trenches and their associated life can still claim to be largely beyond the realm of serious anthropogenic … Continue reading Stephen R. Kellert