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Author Clare Follmann is joined by activist Patty Krawec for a virtual conversation about her new book Scapegoat and the the outdated narrative of "species management."
Drawing on environmental science and semiotics, Scapegoat: What the Invasive Species Story Gets Wrong recounts how the use of biased rhetoric and inaccessible language has created support for a popular but misleading war of “native” against “invasive” that does nothing to address the root cause of biodiversity loss. Instead, these are "plastic words" that lose their precise scientific origins with their introduction to everyday language yet still carry the weight of authority—becoming persuasive and dangerously malleable.
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