Post Card 1 - Raymond May
(Image Source: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Animistic-anthropocentric-construction-model-of-the-life-concept-Yorek-Narli-2009_fig1_271499191)
However, as brought out in the E-Concept of extinction, we are only “briefly in the golden age of our power” but “are destined to extinction, just as the dinosaurs became extinct” (Zalasiewicz, 2008). I believe that we are due to become subject to something greater than us that we may try to control but because we lack knowledge of and are not in positions to tame it, we are simply unable to.
(Image Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-top-ten-weirdest-dinosaur-extinction-ideas-23642539/)
Hence this raises questions such as, are humans really the dominant ones in existence? Some would say yes, some would say no. Also, are humans subject to something more powerful, enough to cause them to become extinct? Will we be trophies of some other being or force? This is something that I found really interesting when coming across this part of the photo essay. It links to an aspect that was presented in Watery Worlds where the strength of water is enough to bring an end to life, both to animals, and to humans.
ARTS3050 – Reading Nature: Jan Zalasiewicz, The Earth After Us (2008)
