Hey Will,
looking forward to the rest of the series! Would be awesome if you could comment on the following development: https://joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com/2020/05/11/age-reduction-breakthrough/
Is this just hype or how should one make sense of this?
Just to let you know that this overall framing is pretty common in sustainable development contexts. It’s often called blue and green infrastructure. See for example: https://iucn.org/news/europe/201911/building-resilience-green-and-blue-infrastructure
However, I think those people would be more focused on „giving nature space and letting it do it’s thing“ rather than trying to upgrade nature. Given our track record, I would tend to agree with them. Let’s not put the cart in front of the horse and think that we can effectively design ecological ecosystems just yet.