Nature by Design: Freakological Fallacies

In this final chapter of "Nature, by Design?", Oliver Kellhammer and Eric Higgs to discuss what we can learn from ruderal places, and how they can empower a new way of thinking about ecological restoration. Sometimes it feels like we’re all living in a garbage-o-sphere – an ecosystem of trash and detritus. But despite the extent of anthropogenic impacts, life is resilient and infinitely creative. Hyper-ecologies; novel ecosystems; freakosystems – different names for the same thing: never-before-seen assemblies of lifeforms, born of human disturbance. These profoundly weird ecologies are persistent, and (through a certain lens) often functional. @futureecologies
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