Plants As Persons

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To The Best Of Our Knowledge is a nationally-syndicated, Peabody award-winning public radio show that dives headlong into the deeper end of ideas.

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Over the past decade, plant scientists have quietly transformed
the way we think of trees, forests and plants. They discovered
that trees communicate through vast underground networks, that
plants learn and remember. If plants are intelligent beings, how
should we relate to them? Do they have a place in our moral
universe? Should they have rights?

Human identity cannot be separated from our nonhuman kin. From
forest ecology to the human microbiome, emerging research
suggests that being human is a complicated journey made possible
only by the good graces of our many companions. In partnership
with the Center for Humans and Nature and with support from the
Kalliopeia Foundation, To The Best Of Our Knowledge is exploring
this theme of "kinship" in a special radio series.

Original Air Date: December 19, 2020

Guests:

Robin Wall Kimmerer — Matt Hall — Monica Gagliano — Brooke Hecht

Interviews In This Hour:

We've Forgotten How To Listen To Plants — We Share This World
With Plants. What Do We Owe Them? — Guided by Plant Voices — The
Botanical Medicine Cabinet