"As we move upstream, the foliage blurs into an anticipated order of branches and leaves. The dark break in this pattern sends a startle down the optic nerve. The shadow moves again, before its formlessness resolves: a moose. Head lifting, he steps clear of the willows, keeping one round eye always on us."

Bathsheba Demuth on a #Gwitchin #Moose Hunt.

#arctic #erosion #ecology #history #anthropocene

🙏 @emergencemagazine

🧶6/x #BatshebaDemuth

https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/living-in-the-bones/

#Mosquitoes are like #krill in the air - Arctic ecology🥰

Batsheba Demuth talking with Derrick Jensen. Worst interview method I heard for some time but still great worth in the answers provided. So maybe it is a great method.

🧶5/x #BatshebaDemuth

#mosquitoes #environment #history #BeringStrait #indiginouspeople

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3YGKCH1X5Dettoh4dLot2Z?si=0W4vq1pFQaKQvqMizbHsVA&utm_source=copy-link

"Early morning sun, late in a summer of intense heat. Here, twenty miles north of the Arctic Circle, the light is dilute, low on the horizon and stained orange by forest-fire smoke blown from the Siberian interior."

Another fantastic story by Batsheba Demuth in @emergencemagazine

#reindeer #chukchi #climate #apocalypse #revolution #arctic

🧶4/x #BatshebaDemuth

https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/reindeer-at-the-end-of-the-world/

What is a #whale - #BathshebaDemuth compares in this essay the cultural difference between relationships based on reciprocity and commodification!

#whaling #beringsea

3/x #BatshebaDemuth

https://www.environmentandsociety.org/perspectives/2019/6/article/what-whale-cetacean-value-bering-strait-1848-1900

🧶 The best of Bathsheba Demuth

Listened yesterday and the day before to this podcast with Dr. Demuth on the #beringsea #arctic #whales #whaling #indiginouspeople #capitalism #communism #greenpeace and much more!
It was so fantastic I would guess at then end of this year it will hold on to the position off being one of the best of the year.

1/x #BatshebaDemuth
http://www.whenwetalkaboutanimals.org/2020/02/10/ep-28-bathsheba-demuth/