David Farrier

David's latest book is Nature's Genius: Evolution's Lessons for a Changing Planet. It tells the story of how human activity is shaping all life on Earth and asks what we can learn form the ability of other species to adapt to life on a human planet. His last book, Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils, explored humanity's deep time traces, from plastic and nuclear waste to space junk and mega cities. Footprints was a 2020 book of the year in the Times and Telegraph. He writing has been translated into ten languages and has appeared in Emergence Magazine, Orion, the Guardian, and the Washington Post. He is professor of literature and the environment at the University of Edinburgh.