BellingenNSWMay 14, 2023

The broken relationship between humans and nature:
Skimming the edited extract from Foreign Bodies by Simon #Schama:

#Displacement is a symptom of #Ecosystems under stress.
“The crashing of barriers between wild and domestic spaces has an ominous side."
"Clearcutting for suburban #Construction to meet the quickened demand has brought new residents ever closer to those ubiquitous reservoirs of #Disease."
The #AmericanDream (The #AustralianDream): the suburban hyperfertilised #Lawn
"The #Sprawl of herbicide-saturated, brilliantly lurid carpet lawns of “colonial” McMansions."
The cult of #Individualism
Cities, suburbanites and species out of place..

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/13/simon-schama-foreign-bodies-book-extract-broken-relationship-humans-animals
#EcologicalDisruption #HumanWildlifeInteractions #HWI #WildlifeTrade #Extinction #Biodiversity #Pandemics #Zoonosis

Simon Schama on the broken relationship between humans and nature: ‘The joke’s on us. Things are amiss’

More than ever, the relationship between our two worlds has been disrupted, says the historian. If we don’t mend our ways, will we face even deadlier threats than Covid, Sars and Mpox?

The Guardian
GrahamRKingsDec 5, 2022
@Peternimmo Indeed. And Simon #Schama has a large section on #Orwell in the first episode of his new #BBC TV series, ‘History of Now’. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0d5wch4
BBC Two - Simon Schama's History of Now, Series 1, Truth and Democracy

Simon Schama explores the artists who have fought for truth and democracy in his lifetime.

BBC
Show thread🐔Lara🥚Nov 27, 2022
@alex_galt @NCGHammo BBC might screen it on BBC World or it will end up on Netflix eventually! #Schama is so good at pulling together multiple threads to weave a compelling narrative. With all the news from Ukraine & China, it’s essential viewing. Hope you find it somewhere
Show thread🐔Lara🥚Nov 27, 2022
@alex_galt @NCGHammo New 3-part series by #Schama just started on #bbc2 #HistoryofNow. He’s using Pasternak, Havel to remind us of our essential human need to live freely, to think, say and do what we want with our friends & family. Democracy rocks, Authoritarianism sucks!
Bridget Kaneen 🇮🇲🇪🇺Nov 27, 2022
Just watching #Schama now on BBC2. Resonating!
NCGHammoNov 26, 2022
#7Books this is hard!
- Nineteen Eighty-four #orwell
- Utopia #More
- Underworld #DeLillo
- Citizens #Schama
- Bring up the Bodies #Mantel
- Atonement #McEwan
- A Passage to India #Forster