NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FUTURE (PB)

Life, uh, finds a way. We sequester our crops on monocultured fields, only to find new life emerging to attack them. We dump toxic waste, only to find microbes colonizing it. Even in the London Tube, we have seen a new species of mosquito emerge to take advantage of an apparently inhospitable habitat. Elucidating several fundamental laws of ecology, evolution, and biogeography, biologist Rob Dunn shows that, rather than asking whether nature will survive us, it is better to ask whether we will survive nature and its response to everything we have done to it.