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Prof of Environmental Humanities. Culture, crisis, justice. @models_climate. Dad. Birdwatcher. Pessimist. My own views.
Leeds, England
Joined August 2016
I've just published a personal essay on bitterns, bereavement, and Irish literature in _The Clearing_ @LittleToller. As it happens, today is the anniversary of the execution of one of its subjects, the poet and revolutionary Thomas MacDonagh.
littletoller.co.uk
A new essay for The Clearing in which David Higgins considers bitterns, their meaning to an Irish poet, and his late father.
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RT @SaulStaniforth: Starmer could talk about ending right to buy & funding local authorities to build massive amounts of new council housin….
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RT @patrick_barkham: Big flaw with Labour's 1.5m new homes – house-builders can't be trusted to add biodiversity, as this important @WildJu….
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Developers in England deliver 53% of features such as trees and bird boxes demanded in planning permissions, study says
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RT @alexhallhall: Yesterday I posted my outrage at this @thetimes and @Channel4News exposure of royal family finances. I regretted my intem….
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RT @PeteApps: Such an important graph in answering the commonly asked question "how the UK fucked up housing policy so badly" . (From the C….
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RT @Natures_Voice: Year on year, our birds of prey are being illegally killed—shot, poisoned, and trapped. Watch our video to learn why, d….
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RT @LeafyHistory: It has been a year since my Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife came out with @pelagicpublish. I'm still so proud of it. To ev….
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RT @SaveTurtleDoves: Over 500 birds - that's 12% of the current UK breeding population! Hey @sdnpa. maybe we could work together to make….
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I'm fascinated by descriptions of the abundance of now rare species. This is W. H. Hudson in 1900, writing about turtle doves in the South Downs. The species is now on the verge of extinction in the UK. For more info, including how to help, see @SaveTurtleDoves
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RT @paulpowlesland: A developer wants to destroy one of the last remaining riverside meadows beside the Roding in London. 11 acres of rapid….
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Visited Jenny Brown’s Point at the top of Morecambe Bay yesterday. Probably would have seen more birds if the tide had been in, but found the landscape itself enthralling. Space and light.
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RT @CumbriaEnglish: Thank you so much to @drdhiggins for getting our 2024-25 ‘Cultural Landscapes’ public lecture series off to a superb st….
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RT @cud_be_worse: Any green historians, env hum or (critical) plant scholars interested in submitting an abstract for our hybrid panel for….
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RT @eirencaffall: Exactly why I wrote The Mourner’s Bestiary, out in one week. I needed to read these books in moments like this and couldn….
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Check out The Mourner's Bestiary - A critically-acclaimed literary memoir braiding together environmental research and the personal journey of generational healing, grief, and chronic illness....
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This is quite an essay by Wendell Berry. I was talking earlier this evening about children and their capacity for wonder (via Rachel Carson). So this indictment of how supposedly civilised nations treat children hits especially hard.
christiancentury.org
We have become a society of people who cannot prevent our own children from being killed in their classrooms—and who do not much mind the killing of other people’s children by weapons of...
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RT @sue_wilkinson: David Higgins addresses the balance between 'dread' and 'wonder' in relation to Rachel Carson's classic 'Silent Spring'….
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Enjoyed this a lot. And a good excuse to look for bitterns at Leighton Moss tomorrow. Many thanks to @DrPennyBradshaw for the invitation and to the attentive audience.
Thank you so much to @drdhiggins for getting our 2024-25 ‘Cultural Landscapes’ public lecture series off to a superb start this evening with a fascinating talk on ‘Rachel Carson and British Nature Writing’ @CumbriaUni @CNPPA_UoC @UoCResearch
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RT @CharlieJGardner: I think a lot of people in this country are really pissed off after a year with few butterflies & bumblebees . We've n….
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RT @CumbriaEnglish: Join us tomorrow (Tuesday 8th Oct) at our Ambleside campus for this free talk on 'Rachel Carson and British Nature Writ….
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RT @joannaofottawa: “I believe that there always will be people sane enough and compassionate enough to trouble themselves on behalf of pea….
christiancentury.org
We have become a society of people who cannot prevent our own children from being killed in their classrooms—and who do not much mind the killing of other people’s children by weapons of...
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RT @KevinClimate: In its literal form CCS is a fledging technology with a history of costly failure& quantitative irrelevance.But this tech….
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