2023-03-02,
Yi-Hsun Hsu, Yu-Hsiang Huang, Jun-Tsong Lin, Yu-Chwen Hsu, I-Zu Su, Chao-Ling Kuo and Chen-Yu Wei,
Chen-Yu Wei
The formation of life relies on suitable envaronmental conditions. A stable envaronment facilitates the continuations of life. Geological records indicate that the Earth has experienced five mass extinctions. in spite of these mass extinction events, there are still tens of millions of species living on Earth. How was the Earth able to maintain biodiversity after following the five extinction events? As life looked for escape route into new areas, it became used to it's new environment, eventually evolving into new species of flora and fauna. This is how biodiversity on Earth today was created.
2017,
Anna Tsing,
Heather Swanson,
Elaine Gan,
Nils Bubandt
Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology puts forward a bold proposal: entangled histories, situated narratives, and thick descriptions offer urgent "arts of living." These essays posit critical and creative tools for survival in a more-than-human Anthropocene. The essays are organized around two key themes that also serve as the publication's two openings: Ghosts, or landscaped haunted by the violences of modernity; and Monsters, or interspecies and intraspecies sociality.