HISTORY
Podcast ep. 2 teaser: “Eugenics & Conservation: Too Close for Comfort”
Interview with Calyx Liddick
Episode 2 of my podcast is upcoming!
Aug. 12: full unedited version for paid subscribers of my Substack or my Patreon (3 hours and 14 minutes long)
Aug. 19: edited version for the public (2 hours and 34 minutes long)
In episode 2 of the “Speaking for the Trees No Matter Where They’re From” podcast, I am joined by co-host Nikki Hill for a conversation with Calyx Liddick, founder of the Northern Appalachia School. Calyx has taken a deep dive into the common origins of the eugenics and conservation movements in the US in the early 20th Century, and what she has found is alarming. The boosters of race science, white supremacy, forced sterilization of “lesser” people and other now discredited concepts were the same men who founded conservationism, and their odious residue remains. Conservationism must now be re-thought so that what is good can be kept and what is bad dismissed.
In our far-ranging discussion, we talked about all this history plus “invasive species” (a central pillar of eugenics as expressed through anti-immigration…