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Christopher Preston

@syntheticage

Montanan, Englishman, husband, and author of Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think About Animals

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On completion of the dam removals, scientists.... "captured images of a 2.5 foot long chinook salmon migrating upstream for the first time in more than 100 years the very next day." (fist pump) #TenaciousBeasts

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I saw Rachel Carson's personal copy of Silent Spring recently in Shepherdstown, WV. Absolutely thrilled to wear something with her name.

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Ever fancied your chances of deextincting a dodo? Think again. I explain why in an article out today with YaleE360. #aurochs #woollymammoth #extinction e360.yale.edu/features/de-ex…

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Cows go 'moo,' right? But what other linguistically interesting things are going on? Turns out, there's plenty. #animals #language BBC News (World) bbc.com/future/article…

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This story absorbed an enormous amount of my energy and attention as it came together. Making carbon capture persuasive is, in the end, an ethics problem. I sketch the ethical issues here.

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Permanent, durable, believable…this was a good article on Industrial carbon capture is a climate strategy environmentalists love to hate. Those committed to its development are trying to win back allies they sorely need. | Christopher Preston in Noema Magazine noemamag.com/climate-delusi…

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Tune in tomorrow night (Wednesday) to PBS's Human Footprint: The Vanishing Act, and you'll see me in a cameo talking about extinction....and deextinction. 9 pm EST. #HumanFootprintPBS #Nature #earth #anthropocene #wildlife #naturalhistory #extinction #NorthernWhiteRhinos

Tune in tomorrow night (Wednesday) to PBS's Human Footprint: The Vanishing Act, and you'll see me in a cameo talking about extinction....and deextinction. 9 pm EST.

#HumanFootprintPBS #Nature #earth #anthropocene
#wildlife #naturalhistory
#extinction #NorthernWhiteRhinos
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".....we probably need to recalibrate the culture so that people are more willing to sacrifice some freedom of autonomy for the sake of the larger community." David Brooks in the Atlantic.