Rebecca Solnit

I listen to stuff that's been said so long ago, so it's cool to watch something 15 hours ago.

There's a talk by Rebecca Solnit on Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe and on YouTube. She reads from paper. She talks about Rachel Carson. Poisons killed everything, not just what it's targeted. Her famous book was called Silent Spring. She quotes MLK on interconnectivity. Revolutions are objections to separateness. Lynn Margulis developed symbiogenesis wasn't how Darwin saw things, he saw things splitting off instead of coming together, but live combines and develops cooperatively, relationality, interdependence. She talks about Suzanne Simard who saw how trees cooperate (NY Times article). She talks about politics, how she was afraid Kamala Harris was going to be torn down as a black woman, so pleased the opposite has been happening so far. The celebration of place too. Interesting, Madonna/Whore syndrome with the environment, we can't touch nature, or we strip mine it.

She does a podcast to promote her book on how it's not too late to try and do some things about climate change, and it's transcribed in Tricycle.

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Profile on Wikipedia

Solnit's website