pandemic by sonia shah picador edition 2017

On rethinking invasive species like ' murder hornets ' and lanternflies We see animals are moving sort of en masse now because of the climate crisis. The turtles are swimming well beyond the boundaries of the marine protected-zones we've made up for them. What's funny is we've created all these parks and reservations to kind of protect animals, and when we've actually now studied well, where do they actually go? It turns out the giraffes, they're supposed to stay in the park in Ethiopia that we set aside for them, in fact, they're crossing borders and going much farther than that. And what they're finding is that these creatures are moving farther and faster and in more complex and responsive ways, dynamic ways than anyone ever thought before.

So you can see the full picture of the way they move. With solar technology and GPS, we can track animals 24/7 over the course of their lifetimes, sort of continuously.

Your purchase helps support NPR programming. So they had that kind of authority of being people who are looking into this really deeply.Ĭlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Next Great Migration Subtitle The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move Author Sonia Shah They did all this science to try to prove that, which, by modern standards is not scientific, as we understand it at all. And so if they came into our country and started to partner with 'native' people, with local people, that they would have these hybrid children that would be like deformed, essentially degenerated and deformed. really felt like immigration would cause a biological catastrophe, because they thought that people from Africa or Polynesia or elsewhere in the world were biologically distinct. On how Linnaeus' ideas opened the door for junk 'race science' within the scientific community We see hints of all of that in the way we make policy around immigration and newcomers in places around the world. When a wild creature crosses from a different place into a new territory, we think of it as an invasive we call it an alien.

We see hints of all of that in the way we make policy around immigration and newcomers in places around the world.īut those ideas were incredibly influential because we see them today in our ideas about race and about where people belong and where wild species belong.

Pandemic by sonia shah picador edition 2017