Field Guide to the Anthropocene

Field Guide to the Anthropocene

Cruel to Be Kind

1/30/25 - rewilding New Zealand

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Jason Anthony
Jan 31, 2025
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kākāpō released in Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari / credit: Peter Drury, source

Hello everyone:

The writing will take you to New Zealand this week, but I’ll start the journey with a few paragraphs about the cruel chaos coming out of D.C.. For those of you who want a break from all that, skip down past the picture of harried sheep. For those of you who wish I was focusing more on the anti-environmental bloodsport of the Trump administration, I’ll get there. That reality is an ultramarathon, not a sprint, and I do try to keep something of a global perspective here.

As always, please remember to scroll past the end of the essay to read this week’s curated Anthropocene news.

Now on to the writing:

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