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ELIZABETH KOLBERT on the Coming Age of Loneliness /28

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

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2015

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer for the NEW YORKER, author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change, and most recently The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, which has just won the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction.Support the show

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please visit for the Wild dot world slash donate. I'm going to do. It's high on a mountain the warm winds are blowing where the winds are blowing too.

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There ain't no way of no wind.

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Mountain grass is short.

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It's dry and close to burning.

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Crying out for water. is dry and close to burning,

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crying out for water

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as the seasons turning.

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Sweet smell the pine,

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tall Western cedar

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drifting on the wind through mountains like a river. Hello, I'm I'm Iana Young, and I welcome you to Un Learn and Rewild, where we explore radical ideas relating to Earth renewal.

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In their race to name this new bizarre geologic era, Anthropocene seems to have stuck the most.

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