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Heise, Ursula. Imagining Extinction (2016). Introduction and Chapter 6. -…
Heise, Ursula. Imagining Extinction (2016). Introduction and Chapter 6.
[Heise's solution] Biodiversity, endangered species, and extinction as cultural issues: multispecies justice
Multispecies justice: "puts questions of justice for both humans and nonhumans front and center, even as it emphasizes that justice itself has to be imagined at the intersection of different cultural perspectives" (202-03).
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[Problematic solutions] placing modernization, progress (technology) at the center
Unqualified confidence in technological solutions (techno-fixes) to extinction and loss of biodiversity: while they "attempts to reenvision environmentalism in the context of a pervasively domesticated natural world" (11), they actually "end up reverting to the unqualified, relentlessly anthropocentric narrative of progress that environmentalism set out to quesiton" (12).
Such confidence is premised on humans' abilities to "manage" and "engineer" Earth: technofixes ignore "large-scale natural processes over which humans have absolutely no control" and "the fact that some of the most fundamental human transformations of the planet took place outside our intention and control" (208)
Examples
De-extinction: "umbrella term for various projects to recreate extinct species" (209). Problem: attraction comes from "its proximity to science fiction" instead of making "significant contribution to restoring ecosystems of the past" (211)
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