January 2020 – Good is Better

Songs for when the world is burning

Jan 15, 2020Tilly HintonClimate, Climateaustralia, bushfires, climate change, climate crisis, death, fire, midnight oil, music, tom griffiths, wildfire

Last week I was tasked with selecting a song to play during an environmental communications guest lecture at the University of California, Los Angeles. A song to summarize the world burning. Finding anything at all that adequately speaks the unprecedented crisis and tragedy that my country is living through was quite a task. My first […]

My country is burning

Australia is ablaze. As an environmental historian, I should have a well-formed intellectual response to the crisis. Instead, I find myself grief-stricken, furious, paralysed, and eerily certain that the worst of times lie ahead of us not behind us. But staying silent in a crisis is a political stance too, and it’s one I can […]

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Month: January 2020

Songs for when the world is burning

My country is burning