The various seed banks around the world hold an interesting promise in the anthropocene. Most certainly they are a good idea, a bulwark against an unknowable future. I think there are some challenging problems that are worth exploring in connection to these projects. To think about the future of plant extinctions for example is also to think about the technics of plant (re-)introductions in rapidly changing ecologies I’m curious about the future of farming and the politics of re-introducing plants to areas that no longer have the capacity to support them or areas that have never had them. It opens questions around the definition of native and invasive species. Not only can we expect humans to be moving all over the place in response to climate change but we can expect plants to be doing the same (where they have the capacity and the help).
The various seed banks around the world hold an interesting promise in the anthropocene. Most certainly they are a good idea, a bulwark against an unknowable future. I think there are some challenging problems that are worth exploring in connection to these projects. To think about the future of plant extinctions for example is also to think about the technics of plant (re-)introductions in rapidly changing ecologies I’m curious about the future of farming and the politics of re-introducing plants to areas that no longer have the capacity to support them or areas that have never had them. It opens questions around the definition of native and invasive species. Not only can we expect humans to be moving all over the place in response to climate change but we can expect plants to be doing the same (where they have the capacity and the help).