book: Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid , Thor Hanson
Hanson does the important and cautious work of describing life-on-earth as more than an inert thing upon which anthropogenic climate change acts. Adaptation and evolution are still active factors, after all, with complex interplay with other organisms, life-history factors like generation length, and habitat loss.
The story is much more nuanced than either simple global annihilation or no-collapse supercharged evolution. Microclimates, invasives, and inter-specific competition add texture to the slopes of plots. Through interesting and varied examples, Hanson presents a teeming menagerie of organisms doing the unexpected.
this is not everything-is-fine head-in-the-sand talk, this is a highlight on the complexity of climate and life that cautions against the belief that we understand everything that is to come.
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