Drawing on the work of Albert Camus this paper offers a critique of certain discourses around ‘novel ecosystems’. These new species ‘assemblages’ are frequently defended, or even celebrated, as exemplifying resilience and adaptability to the environmental repercussions of a global situation inaccurately glossed as ‘The Anthropocene’. Here the increasing prevalence of economically generated changes, including the accelerating translocations of species, are set against earlier conservation values emphasizing protection of ‘natural’ and ‘native’ ecologies. The proliferation of novel ecosystems, together with an instrumental emphasis on their functional, ‘pragmatic’, and economic benefits, appears to make environmentalists’ ethical concerns about the loss of endangered others seem ‘absurd’ and frames conservation as a Sisyphean task. Yet Camus early work provides arguments for ethical / political resistance in just such absurd and extreme circumstances.

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（A）为“地球的激情”醒来：灭绝和新型生态系统的荒谬“伦理”

本文借鉴阿尔伯特·加缪（Albert Camus）的工作，对围绕“新型生态系统”的某些论述进行了评论。这些新物种的“集合体”经常被捍卫，甚至被赞誉为“全球人类”，其对全球形势的环境影响的适应力和适应性被不当地掩饰。在这里，与经济增长有关的变化（包括物种的易位加速）的流行与早期的保护价值相对应，强调保护“自然”和“本地”生态。新型生态系统的扩散，以及对它们的功能性，“务实”和经济利益的工具性强调，似乎使环保主义者对濒临灭绝的其他物种丧失的道德关切似乎“荒谬”，并将保护视为西西弗斯的任务。