Sublime

For the last few decades, the weapon of choice against invasive rodents has been Brodifacoum, an anticoagulant that induces internal hemorrhaging. Brodifacoum can be incorporated into bait and then dispensed from feeders, or it can be spread by hand, or dropped from the air. (First you ship a species around the world, then you poison it from helico

“What people are not seeing is that this is already a genetically modified environment,” he went on. Invasive species alter the environment by adding entire genomes that don’t belong. Genetic engineers, by contrast, alter just a few bits of DNA here and there.

In the twentieth century, the biodiversity crisis, as it eventually came to be known, only sped up. Extinction rates are now hundreds—perhaps thousands—of times higher than the so-called background rates that applied over most of geological time. The losses extend across all continents, all oceans, and all taxa. Along with the species formally cate

It is our duty to be keepers and managers of the sea. If we protect our wet fields, they will continue to provide for us.”

the time has come to update our notion of “others” to include habitat—plants, animals, soils, water, and atmosphere. Now we say, “Do unto the Earth as you would have the Earth do unto you.” Or, as another modernized variation puts it, “Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.”