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Dr. DAVID WAGNER on the Ever Indispensable Insect /114

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Anthropocene, Land, Story Telling, Progressive, Liberation, Media, For The Wild, Decolonization, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Ayana and Dr. Wagner discuss insects as biological controls, insect decline in relation to political and economic destabilization, how cultural understandings of insects influence the field of entomology, and the main drivers behind insect decline. It is certainly true that while some people can’t live with insects, we know we can’t live without them…Support the show

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I'm Iana Young.

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