In the book, Macfarlane searches for answers around the world, including near his own home in Cambridge, England, where the springs have nearly dried up. But then there’s Ecuador, a nation, Macfarlane says, with a “vast moral imagination.” There, water has been granted personhood. In India, though, he visits the River Adyar, which — or “who,” as Macfarlane might say — is on the brink of death. Meanwhile, he tracks the growing Rights of Nature movement, which seeks to extend human rights to the natural world. Robert Macfarlane joins us for a conversation about how to reimagine the lives of rivers.
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Robert Macfarlane | Professor of Literature and the Environmental Humanities at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge. His latest book is called “Is a River Alive?” [Amazon|Bookshop]
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