To farewells and new beginnings
After addressing environmental issues through the prism of conflict, it is time for this newsletter to tackle a broader range of subjects.
Why read this story?
Editor's note: You are reading the 24th and final edition of Thirty-six. We launched this weekly newsletter on environmental conflicts in India, across its 28 states and eight union territories (hence the name). The Chaos team at The Morning Context published it every Wednesday, bringing original insights and even breaking stories. The newsletter’s mandate to focus on environmental conflicts was a commendable decision. It paid heed to an ongoing evolution in the way nature is studied. Since the dawn of modern academic disciplines, the study of nature and environmental change has been the domain of science. To understand trees, after all, biology seems more suitable than history or sociology. Whether it is air pollution or deforestation or rising sea levels, we turn to science to provide evidence and solutions. The dominant image of the environment is also rooted in biology: we think of trees or of wild animals like the tiger or panda. But nature is not just biology. It is also about history, sociology and politics. Emerging disciplines like political ecology, environmental anthropology, and ecological economics look at nature as not …
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