Ambiguous Legacies, Contested Futures

Our exploration of the ambiguous legacies and contested futures of 'environmental classics' began in a deeply contested and uniquely ambiguous time. We found ourselves caught up in the whirlwind of an unforeseen (by us) pandemic, tellingly brought on by the caging and consumption of wild mammals, as well as by decades of anthropogenic impacts on climate and habitat zones. Within the United States, the unequal effects of a global pandemic, together with a renewed fight for racial justice and a predictable, but still frightening, increase in climate-caused disasters, startled us into our own reckoning with the limits of foresight and insight when living in any given historical moment

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