David George Haskell
American biologist and writer, professor at the University of the South, whose books include The Forest Unseen, The Songs of Trees, Sounds Wild and Broken and How Flowers Made our World.
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Their wordsUSFS already has a $6.9 billion deferred maintenance backlog for roads and bridges. They cannot keep up with the roads we already have. Building new ones is a huge waste of taxpayer dollars.
↗Thread on opening National Forest roadless areas to roads and loggingbsky.app 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsRoads degrade water, land, native wildlife, and provide conduits for non-native species.
↗Thread on opening National Forest roadless areas to roads and loggingbsky.app 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 4 months earlier
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Their wordsA reminder that patients are commodities in US.
↗Post on coverage of China's rise in drug developmentbsky.app
- 2 days earlier
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Their wordsThe problem is Trump, not that some folks, usually not urbane pundits, like to watch wrestling.
↗Post on condemning the regime without deriding rural Americabsky.app
- 7 months earlier
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Their wordsBiology education should face up to the field's troubled roots.
↗Thread on James Watson's death and racism in biologybsky.app 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsAll science is embedded in and shaped by cultural context.
↗Thread on James Watson's death and racism in biologybsky.app 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsPretending that Watson was an outlier does not help. Let's recognize that he stood firmly within an established racist tradition, then chose a different direction for the future.
↗Thread on James Watson's death and racism in biologybsky.app 3rd of 3 in this piece