Great essay from @jenn_bernstein and @karst_justine on the curious, massive popularity of the concept of the Mother Tree despite its gender essentialism, dodgy environmental politics, and wobbly scientific grounding.
https://t.co/Equj1CiC3T
All-around amazing issue. J&I say that the concept of motherhood gives a free pass to some messed-up essentialism. Subscribe to @damagemag, it's worth well it.
Also, I may have taken Method Acting a little too far. New ecomodernist drops next month.
https://t.co/Sb4y2ILg0h
1) it has problematic implications for gender equality and cultural progress,
2) it provides little guidance in addressing today’s most pressing forest management challenges, and
Jenn Bernstein @jenn_bernstein and I explore 3 problems with the Mother Tree metaphor in ‘Mothers Don’t Grow on Trees’ in this issue of @damagemag 🧵 https://t.co/rtChevljOA
Now online today, @jenn_bernstein & @karst_justine in the new issue of @damagemag on misleading popsci claims about Mother Trees. Glad to have some scientists in the issue. 👩🔬🔬🌲 https://t.co/SkHlInY3h7
Environmental injustice has become much more visible in recent years, thankfully, and people are looking for ways to incorporate #EnvironmentalJustice frameworks more explicitly into their research and teaching. With @mikefinewood and @jenn_bernstein https://t.co/zhkw6Misw0
.@mikefinewood and Michelle Luebke sit down with @jenn_bernstein to discuss #EnvironmentalJustice and the Bronx River Watershed https://t.co/zhkw6Mj0ly
@mikefinewood @jenn_bernstein Read their case study, "The Bronx River and #EnvironmentalJustice Through the Lens of a Watershed," which is free to read for a limited time, here 👇 https://t.co/2n7wep9sRu
“The climate crisis is a hard problem. It gets even harder when you start boxing yourself in with worldviews that formed decades ago, or with confirmation biases that drown out inconvenient truths.”
If @Janefonda and other nuclear power critics see the risks of meltdown as too high, that’s their call.
But solar & wind aren’t enough to confront the climate crisis. Let’s stop pretending otherwise and start making hard choices.
My latest for @latimes: https://t.co/KREPwKWu9w