With us or without us. The natural story of the future. Dunn R.

Presenting the future, we usually imagine ourselves built into a mechanized ecosystem, populated by robots, devices and virtual realities. The future is rosy and technological, and we people are the only living characters in this beautiful world. However, such an idea is a big mistake, says the biologist and ecologist Rob Dunn. No matter how we try to subjugate nature, we remain part of it and is directly dependent on it.

In the book “With us or without us,” Dunn talks about biological laws, as immutable as the laws of physics, about how the world around us changes, what fate awaits us and where and how and how will they be Form new. At the same time, for the long history of its life on the planet, humanity involuntarily exterminated wild species, on which it depended or could depend, and at the same time contributed to the emergence of species that create troubles.

Now, if we ourselves want to survive, we ourselves survive We must learn to understand biological laws and obey them. Then our chances to live another 100, 1000 or even a million years will increase significantly. Well, if not - well, environmentalists and evolutionary biologists have a rather convincing vision of how life on earth will develop without us.