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.
(Ht: bridgetmck)
‘Being so helpless is hard to describe’: can rescuers win the race against
time to save an orphaned orca?
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Experts are trying everything from drums to whale calls to lure kʷiisaḥiʔis
– or Brave Little Hunter – out of the Canadian lagoon she has been trapped
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