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Book Reviews from punk eek
Into the Fire, our book review column run by Jonathan Russell Clark, engages with environmentally focused literature and prioritizes depth, context, and inquiry over recommendation alone. Our goal is rigorous, thoughtful engagement with works published in the environmental space.
Humanity’s Great Project <em>On Deb Olin Unferth’s Earth 7</em>
There are so many reasons why we call Earth “mother.” The planet we live on gave us life, incrementally, over millions of years of evolution. It gave life to all the other living things that nourish us, to all the materials from which we’ve built our cultures, our homes, our works of art. . . .
The Scale of Our Fealty <em> On Elizabeth Kolbert’s Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World and the Banality of Radicality </em>
I want to talk about scale. Scale as in proportions, scale as in comparative size, and scale as in the changing nature of things at various extremes of existence.
To begin (and I apologize for its length), a quote from Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. . . .
Where Art and Science Meet: <em>Maria Popova’s Traversal</em>
There are no exploration points more vital to our present moment than the intersections between art and science. Though such a statement sounds lofty, it couldn’t be more grounded and relevant. This space, or, as Maria Popova puts it in her new masterwork Traversal, “the Venn diagram of the humanistic and scientific,” is where we most effectively learn the nuanced distinctions between fact and opinion, between correlation and causation, and between care and expediency.