Oolite Bulletins

An interesting article.

I've read it, and I think the author got just a little bit overexcited.

"Terraforming" sounds like a huge thing. What Darwin & Co actually did was well-known to their contemporaries under the name of "gardening".

There were all kinds of plants that don't belong together in nature, growing side by side.

Like in your average botanical garden, which is not very surprisingly where they got the specimen from, before they were planted on Ascension.

Still, making the island durably habitable is no small feat. So I can understand the excitement.

Terraforming is just gardening on planetary scale, including animals

at what point in terraforming do they add in all the shte and pollution to make it completely like Earth?