The World Is a Prism, Not a Window – A Conversation with with Zoë Schlanger

In this episode, climate journalist Zoë Schlanger speaks about her
book The Light Eaters and explores what it might mean if we
embraced plant intelligence within the frame of Western science.
She shares a smorgasbord of new findings around the capabilities of
plants—from roots that can sense the sound of running water to
flowers memorizing the timing of pollinators’ visits—and wonders
how a growing awareness of more-than-human intelligence can upend
the structures and hierarchies we have placed around living beings,
ourselves included. Talking about the politics of language in the
field of botany, shedding her own plant blindness, and how we can
widen our scientific imaginations to perceive intelligence in
beings without brains, Zoë probes what it will take for us to let
plants into the realm of our ethical consideration.  Read the
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