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In a time of climate breakdown and mass extinction there is a new urgency to environmental writing, both as literature and as science. So In their series, Meehan Crist and Peter Godfrey-Smith consider some of the most significant books published in the last few years, along with classic texts by Rachel Carson, James Lovelock and Robin Wall Kimmerer – tracing a loose arc from biology to society via questions of plant intelligence, biodiversity loss, the rights of nature, ecofascism and green capitalism.
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Meehan Crist is writer in residence in biological sciences at Columbia University.
Peter Godfrey-Smith is a professor in the School of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney
Books featured in the series:
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
Zoë Schlanger, The Light Eaters
Helen Czerski, The Blue Machine
Sunil Amrith, The Burning Earth
James Lovelock, Gaia
Robert Macfarlane, Is a River Alive?
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
Emily Raboteau, Lessons for Survival
Roy Scranton, Impasse
Alex Moore and Sam Roberts, The Rise of Ecofascism
Thea Riofrancos, Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
Venomous Lumspcuker by Ned Beauman and Helm by Sarah Hall
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