A modern history of ancient trees, through the lens of climate change
21 Oct 2022
Historian Jared Farmer discusses his new book, ‘Elderflora,’ looking at why humans have no trouble looking at the ancient past but can’t seem to envision the deep future, and what trees can teach us.
“Ancient trees are bridges between short time and deep time, between lived human time and abstract geological time,” Farmer says. “We have to create emotive connections to the far future in order to work together on climate now.”
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