The Ecologist runs an extract from a new essay about art and climate change by Jay Griffiths, author of Wild - An Elemental Journey. In the essay, Griffiths argues that for most of human history culture has been rooted in nature (cultus means cultivation):
The unexamined prejudice against nature within aesthetics will come to seem as vacuous and cruel as racism or sexism for, despite the pretence that culture is antagonistic to nature, it never really has been.
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People with higher IQs are more likely to live to their 80s
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A study of over 65,000 people has found that people who scored higher on an
intelligence test at the age of 11 were less likely to die of a range of
diseases
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