This is the 267th 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 (April 11, 2022 – April 17, 2022):
Monday: “In 1958 Mao Zedong ordered all the sparrows to be killed because they ate too much grain. This caused one of the worst environmental disasters in history” by Goran Blazeski, The Vintage News
Tuesday: “Chile announces unprecedented plan to ration water as drought enters 13th year” by Reuters in Santiago, The Guardian
Wednesday: “Art Gallery of South Australia’s Adelaide Biennial exhibition interrogates South Australia’s history of slavery, environmental degradation” by Dee Jefferson, ABC News
Thursday: “Our food system isn’t ready for the climate crisis” by Nina Lakhani, et.al., The Guardian
Friday: “The Broken Promise of Agricultural Progress: An Environmental History” by Cameron Muir, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Saturday: “Director del AIFA, con autos de lujo e inmuebles pagados al contado,” Eje Central
Sunday: “Coal mining in Indian forests is turning local villagers into environmental watchdogs” by Kuwar Singh, Quartz India
Top Words
- diversity
- cal
- food
- varieties
- can
- Australia
- climate
- people
- water
- coffee
- like
- one
- South
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