{"id":234253,"date":"2026-04-22T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/there-is-no-nature-anymore\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T06:25:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:25:27","slug":"there-is-no-nature-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/there-is-no-nature-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"There is no nature anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is no nature anymore<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2026\/04\/22\/1135440\/editors-letter-may-2026\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-04-22 06:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.technologyreview.com<\/a><\/p>\n

These examples are mostly pollution\u2014nuclear, carbon, chemical, light\u2014but I raise them not to highlight the ways human industry and technology degrade the environment but to note how the things humans build change it. Nobody really knows what the exact effects of all that will be, but my point is that no part of the globe is free of human fingerprints. We have literally changed the world.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve changed ourselves as well. Humans are especially adept at bending human nature. Everything about us is up for grabs\u2014appearance, health, our very thoughts. Pharmaceuticals, surgeries, vaccines, and hormones give us longer lives, take away our pain, ease our anxiety and depression, make us faster, stronger, more resilient. We\u2019re getting glimpses of technologies that will let us change who our children will become before they\u2019re even born. Electrodes implanted in people\u2019s brains let them control computers and translate thoughts into speech. Prosthetics and exoskeletons straight out of comic books restore and enhance physical abilities, while gene-\u00adediting technologies like CRISPR are rewriting our very DNA. And meanwhile, people have taken the sum total of all the information we have ever written down and poured it into vast calculating machines in an effort\u2014at least by some\u2014to build an intelligence greater than our own.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So what even is nature, or natural, in this context? Is it \u201cenvironmentalist,\u201d in the conventional sense, to try to preserve what one could argue no longer exists? Should we employ technology to try to make the world more \u201cnatural\u201d?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Those questions led us to approach this Nature issue with humility. We try to grapple with them all the time\u2014MIT Technology Review is, after all, a review of how people have altered and built upon nature.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s a place to think about how we might repair it. Take solar geoengineering, for example\u2014a subject we have covered with increasing frequency over the past few years. The…<\/p>\n

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