[Ideas] Cal Flyn: After the devastation

AFTER THE DEVASTATION
A salon with Cal Flyn

 Ideas  / Fri 7 Oct / 6:30 - 8:30 PM

Prize-winning author Cal Flyn pioneers a new category of terrain blending environment and human history to take us on a grand tour of the world of a very different kind. She explores the most damaged spots on Earth, searching for the marks left on the land when humans finally retreat. Landscapes racked by war, nuclear meltdown, natural disaster, desertification, toxification, irradiation, and economic collapse - from Tanzanian mountains to the volcanic Caribbean, the forbidden areas of France to the mining regions of Scotland, Chernobyl and more. And, somehow, she uplifts our spirit.

In her brilliant, thought-provoking and evocative investigation, the terrible cost of devastation humans have wrought, surprisingly makes space for the unanticipated joy of life as Nature flourishes and reclaims abandoned land and the animal kingdom has adapted. Her profound insight and new ecological discoveries together map an answer to the big questions: what happens after we're gone, and how far can our damage to nature be undone?

Join us for an ultimately redemptive story about the power and promise of the natural world.

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