Talk: 9 April, 2025 on Exporting Suffering: The Flower Industry at Home and Abroad

Everyone loves flowers. They brighten our day. They remind us of the beauty of life, and they are ephemeral, a memento mori of sorts to reflect upon our own mortality. But in the past half-century, the presence of flowers has moved from local to global markets, from...

Reading the Signs

Ours is a crisis of misreading the signs. As are the origins of all crises. Humans are the only species of being able to trick ourselves to such a collective, thorough degree that we are able to ignore all the signs, again and again. No other species would survive...