The Fallout: Voices from Ukraine – Anna Badkhen et al.

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Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Spirituality, Natural Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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One year has passed since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The conflict has unleashed unspeakable violence, killing hundreds of thousands of people, displacing millions from their homes, and inflicting untold suffering. And the war’s impact on Ukraine’s more-than-human life is just as unfathomable and long-lasting. In the face of such impossible reckoning, author Anna Badkhen brings together a compilation of vignettes by journalists, poets, and environmentalists in close proximity to the war. From the radioactive Red Forest of Chernobyl's Nuclear Exclusion Zone, to the liberated but heavily-mined Izium and the fragile ecosystems of the Ukrainian steppes, “The Fallout”' coalesces into what Anna calls “a schrapneled bearing in time” and makes visible a landscape fractured, disoriented, and deeply harmed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Emergence Magazine's podcast. I'm Emanuel Vaughn Lee, executive editor of Emergence
0:07.3	Magazine, located on the unseated ancestral lands of the Coast Mewalk people of present-day
0:13.9	Marin County. Each week, we feature a new interview, narrated essay, or story, exploring the threads connecting ecology, culture, and spirituality.
0:27.6	One year has passed since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
0:32.6	The conflict has unleashed unspeakable violence, killing hundreds of thousands of people, displacing millions from their homes, and inflicting untold suffering.
0:42.3	And the war's impact on Ukraine's more than human life is just as unfathomable and long-lasting.
0:48.3	Bombed fuel deposits have spilled oil into waterways.
0:52.3	Munitions have leached toxic chemicals into the air and soil,
0:57.0	and wildfires started by shelling have destroyed forests. As Ukraine is transformed by this war,
1:03.0	how can one comprehend the depths of its destruction? In the face of such impossible reckoning,
1:09.0	author Anna Backkin brings together a compilation of vignettes
1:12.8	by journalists, poets, and environmentalists in close proximity to the war.
1:18.7	From the radioactive red forest in Chernobyl's nuclear exclusion zone, to the liberated but heavily mined
1:24.4	isium and the fragile ecosystems of the Ukrainian steps.
1:28.3	The fallout coalesces into what Anna calls a shrapnel bearing in time
1:33.3	and makes visible a landscape fractured, disoriented, and deeply harmed.
1:43.3	The Fallout. Introduction by Anna Bakken
1:50.0	How to write about the environmental fallout of an ongoing active shooting war.
1:57.0	In the first eight months after Russia launched its latest invasion of Ukraine on February 24,
2:03.6	2022, Ukraine's Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources recorded 2,239 cases of environmental damage it blames on the war.
2:16.6	The Ministry's fighting has placed under threat a fifth of Ukraine's protected areas, and
2:22.1	around 600 animal species and 750 species of plants and fungi.
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