This is the 140th 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 28, 2019 – November 3, 2019):
Monday: “Opinion: Five reasons climate change is the worst environmental problem the world has ever faced” by Christopher Knittel, Los Angeles Times
Tuesday: “Reflections of a Mining Historian” by Robin Gendron, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE)
https://twitter.com/itmaintenanceme/status/1189513165500866560
Wednesday: “Our obsession with insects in horror films says a lot about our fear of destroying the planet” by Elizabeth Horkley, Quartz
Thursday: *Link Broken*
Friday:“Brazil: Oil Spill Likely from Venezuela Could Be Worst ‘Environmental Attack’ in History” by Ben Kew, Breitbart
Saturday: “Should this tree have the same rights as you?” by Robert Macfarlane, The Guardian
Sunday: “History of the Factory” by Chris Hedges, Dandelion Salad
Top Words
1. rights
2. environmental
3. world
4. Ness
5. also
6. oil
7. human
8. natural
9. history
10. one
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