This is the 138th post in my series that explores the most-used words in the top stories shared among Environmental Historians and Environmental Humanities scholars on Twitter each week.
Here are the top articles among environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (October 14, 2019 – October 20, 2019):
Monday: “High climate variability and increasing aridity brought an end to an early hominid species” by University of Bremen, Phys.org
Tuesday: “Rise of renewables may see off oil firms decades earlier than they think” by Jillian Ambrose, The Guardian
Wednesday: “Jedediah Purdy Has an Idea That Could Save Us From Capitalism and the Climate Crisis” by Aaron Bady, The Nation
Thursday: “Here’s why Boris Johnson’s plans have every chance of falling apart” by Tom Kibasi, The Guardian
https://twitter.com/therealkikimora/status/1184915195002441728
Friday:“Why White Supremacists Are Hooked on Green Living” by Sam Adler-Bell, The New Republic
Saturday: “Trump rule may mean 1 million kids lose automatic free lunch” by Candice Choi, PBS Newshour
Sunday: “The world’s top economists just made the case for why we still need English majors” by Heather Long, The Washington Post
Top Words
1. climate
2. people
3. political
4. will
5. time
6. can
7. world
8. like
9. politics
10. change
11. book
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