The future is wild dougal dixon5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Reading it today, it has itself become a time capsule of an earlier period of environmental and scientific thought. It’s a premise that has aged well, as anxiety over our long-term damage to the planet grows the book has been reissued a dozen times since its publication in 1981. This year, Breakdown Press republished After Man, a book by the Scottish geologist Dougal Dixon that imagines how other species will evolve after humans go extinct, fifty million years in the future. Time heals all wounds-even if it will take millions of years.įor insights on the scale of millions of years, we turn to geologists, whose specialty is mapping the cycles of the earth through deep time. The only way, it seems, is to take the long perspective: knowing that someday, after we are gone, the earth will again host rich biodiversity. ![]() In this era of ecological collapse and cascading extinctions one feels a desire, latent in our species, to see the world become wild again. ![]()
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