Solvejg NitzkeToo deep into my book project to write anything else right now, but the new Disney movie "Strange World" reminds me of my sad neglected blog. I should do a Christmas or New Year's post on paedagogical plants in recent movies. Or The Moral of the Plant Story.
I should also post something, because it is so interesting how things fit together or, rather, don't. Apparently the Disney company and its plan to destroy vast swaths of land for some "development" project inspired lots of successful environmental activism in the 1970s...now they make a move with a significant plant in it and name it after the most interesting (and famous and threatened) clonal tree colony...
Btw: speaking of Disney, trees and environmental activism's impact:
Do listen to Jill Lepore's excellent podcast, especially Episode 3.4 (you will want to binge all of it after this one anyway)
https://www.thelastarchive.com/season-3/episode-four-the-tree-branch
Episode Four: The Tree Branch — The Last Archive
This episode, the celebration of an anniversary — sort of. The anniversary of a dream. An alternate history: imagining what the world might be like if, fifty years ago, in 1972, Americans had ratified an Environmental Rights Amendment. An amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting not only protecti