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6 days ago | 
jasonanthony.substack.com | Jason Anthony
Hello everyone:As always, please remember to scroll past the end of the essay to read some curated Anthropocene news. Now on to this week’s writing:I worry often that the writing I do here sings to an empty hall.
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1 week ago | 
jasonanthony.substack.com | Jason Anthony
Hello everyone:As always, please remember to scroll past the end of the essay to read some curated Anthropocene news. Now on to this week’s writing:One of our favorite walks in this area is the La Verna Preserve. The trail winds for a mile or two through mixed forest, crossing a couple wetlands, on its way to the sea, where a broad view takes in both the spruce-tipped islands dotting Muscongus Bay and the open horizon of the Gulf of Maine.
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2 weeks ago | 
jasonanthony.substack.com | Jason Anthony
Hello everyone:As always, please remember to scroll past the end of the essay to read some curated Anthropocene news. Now on to this week’s writing:Of all the strange ideas haunting this phase (and the next) of the unplanned Anthropocene experiment, the strangest may be this: There are too few of us, and declining birth rates around the developed world are a threat to the future of humanity.
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3 weeks ago | 
jasonanthony.substack.com | Jason Anthony
Hello everyone:I only recently remembered that this week marks four years of the Field Guide. I’ve published more than 200 essays (minus some repeats and weeks off) since Earth Day, 2021, all in a quest to usefully describe the strange world we’re making from the astonishing planet we’re unmaking. I’ve tried to strike a balance between articulating the disrupted world for you and reminding you of how beautiful and wonderful that world is. Thank you all for joining me in this effort.
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1 month ago | 
jasonanthony.substack.com | Jason Anthony |Ian Urbina |Bill Davison |Jonathan D. Tonkin
Hello everyone: This is the second half of my update on deep sea mining for polymetallic nodules. This may seem like an odd and arcane topic, but it couldn’t be more relevant to this moment - in terms of politics, technology, and environmental ethics - as we wrestle with the question of how best to enter the next phase of modern civilization. As always, please remember to scroll past the end of the essay to read some curated Anthropocene news.
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1 month ago | 
jasonanthony.substack.com | Jason Anthony
Hello everyone: I first published a version of this essay back in 2021, and provided a short update in 2023. The deep sea mining story has lurked in the news all along, in part because the permitting drama is crawling toward a conclusion, and in part because the environmental and ethical issues remain relevant to other aspects of the renewable energy transition. Now, a recent development has compelled me to rework and update the piece for the current moment.
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1 month ago | 
jasonanthony.substack.com | Jason Anthony |Bryan Pfeiffer
Hello everyone:The Field Guide is taking the week off so that I can bring you some good news: My book, The Roast Penguin Chronicles, has just launched from Compass Rose Press. It’s part memoir, part history of the human experience of Antarctica through a “culinary” lens. The book is built from a century of remarkable stories of life on the ice, from the sagas of early exploration up through the 20th century and recent years, including my own near-decade on the ice.
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1 month ago | 
jasonanthony.substack.com | Jason Anthony |Mike Shanahan
Hello everyone:As always, please remember to scroll past the end of the essay to read some curated Anthropocene news. Now on to this week’s writing:Heather and I were stopped short a few days ago, on a long walk through one of our favorite local conservation preserves. The trail was still icy and snowy in places, but where the Sun could reach it had melted or sublimated the snow and revealed the living city of soil and low plants that has been hidden from us for months.
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2 months ago | 
jasonanthony.substack.com | Jason Anthony |David Perry |Sam Matey
Hello everyone:After a month and a half of watching a gang of unqualified billionaires, fossil fuel executives, “Christian” nationalists, white supremacists, and Nazi sympathizers dismantle the nation’s scientific institutions, convert billions in aid for the needy (here and abroad) into tax breaks for the wealthy, and begin to convert the U.S. executive branch into a fascist stronghold, it’s a good time to revisit last year’s essay on parasites.
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2 months ago | 
jasonanthony.substack.com | Jason Anthony |David Knowles
Hello everyone:As a sort of follow-up to my recent essay, “We Are Not Alone,” I was thinking about how it might overlap with the trauma that’s overtaken U.S. governance. The phrase “the politics of loneliness” came to mind as I was doing the dishes. This week’s essay is an exploration of that phrase. As always, please remember to scroll past the end of the essay to read some curated Anthropocene news.
