Reading Time: 5 minutesInheritance can have far-reaching consequences that extend beyond the family unit, shaping not only society and economy but also the environment.
![The cover image is an excerpt from a press article entitled “Ecological disaster in the upper valley. The Aude river polluted by a violent poison” (“Catastrophe écologique en Haute-Vallée. L’Aude polluée par un poison violent [sic]”), published by the regional newspaper L'Indépendant on 18 September 1983, the day after the pollution. Beneath the headline are two photographs. On the left lies a dead trout, “fallen victim to human stupidity” as the caption states (“Une truite splendide victime de la bêtise des hommes”). On the right, there are the inhabitants of Quillan perched on the city's old bridge, gazing out over the river. The caption reads: “A destruction that rallied all the Quillan residents” (“Une destruction qui a mobilisé tous les habitants de Quillan”).](https://i0.wp.com/envhistnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Image_LT.jpeg?fit=640%2C377&ssl=1)
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Thriving in a world of plants: the possibilities of ecobiography
Reading Time: 7 minutesIn 1874 Sarah Brooks, with her mother and brother, walked nearly 700 kilometers out to the land of the Noongar people in the south-eastern extremities of the South-west Australian Floristic Region. It is still unclear how and why Sarah, an educated, accomplished, single woman, spent the last fifty-four years of her life out in this isolated place.
More-than-Human Remains: Reckoning with Ivory in (Post)Colonial Museums
Reading Time: 7 minutesMuseums developed and funded by European colonization often grapple with the morally blurry lines between public education and neocolonial exploitation. Elephant tusk — otherwise known as ivory — is embedded in these politics of historical display.
Fearing the Subject of Study: The Climate Crisis and the Environmental Historian
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe world we have constructed appears to be hurtling towards disaster, if not outright oblivion.
Orhan Pamuk, Me, and Two Men From the Seventeenth Century
Reading Time: 5 minutesBologna, 2018. The odor of seriousness hung heavy in the reading room of the archives.
Remaining emotionless in the face of catastrophe: a gender perspective of climate change communication
Reading Time: 8 minutesIn the film Don’t Look Up, a particularly memorable scene features scientist Dr. Kate Dibiasky, portrayed by Jennifer Lawrence, tearfully proclaiming on national television, “We are all 100% for sure gonna f***ing die”.
