![]() ![]() Fog a tree with pesticides and watch new beetle species tumble from the canopy by the hundreds, a “riot of unnamed life.” Chlorinate your water and, though you might wipe out most parasites, you’ll soon bedew your shower head with chlorine-resistant mycobacteria. In “A Natural History of the Future,” the ecologist Rob Dunn sketches an arresting vision of this relentless natural world - a world that is in equal measures creative, unguided and extravagant. Nature ceaselessly advances, trespasses, embarrasses our every effort to keep it at bay, and ultimately bursts through. The metaphor extends beyond epidemiology. But others hold back diseases, which are ready to saturate and overwhelm the fragile walls of antibiotics we’ve erected. Yes, some hold back rivers that strain against their embankments. A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FUTURE What the Laws of Biology Tell Us About the Destiny of the Human Species By Rob Dunn ![]()
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