Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future — When Control Becomes the System
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
This episode explores Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert as a systems-level analysis of ecological intervention in the Anthropocene.
The discussion examines how environmental repair can become a permanent system of management, where earlier attempts to control nature generate new dependencies that require deeper forms of control.
The analysis traces:
· incentive structures
· institutional persistence
· feedback loops
· infrastructure lock-in
· conservation-reliant species
·…
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