This is the 182nd 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 (August 17, 2020 – August 23, 2020):
Monday: “Oil Companies Wonder If It’s Worth Looking for Oil Anymore” by Laura Hurst, Bloomberg Green
Tuesday: “5 Economists Redefining… Everything. Oh Yes, And They’re Women” by Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes
Wednesday: “‘All things will outlast us’: how the Indigenous concept of deep time helps us understand environmental destruction” by Ann McGrath, The Conversation
Thursday: “Of Lobsters and Lighthouses: Searching for Sovereignty at Machias Seal Island” by Kate Bauer, The Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE)
Friday: “Newsletter: Fires have already burned more acres statewide in 2020 than during all of 2019” by Julia Wick, Los-Angeles Times
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Saturday: “USPS Headquarters Tells Managers Not to Reconnect Mail Sorting Machines, Emails Show” by Aaron Gordon, Vice
Sunday: “Christian Platonism: A History,” A J B Hampton
Top Words
1. Island
2. Seal
3. Machias
4. one
5. Christian
6. fires
7. also
8. can
9. Platonism
10. will
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