VCU: What the Life and Death of a Whale Can Tell Us About Our Ties to the Natural World
May 05, 2023
May 05, 2023
RICHMOND, Virginia, May 5 -- Virginia Commonwealth University issued the following news:
Bathsheba Demuth, Ph.D., an environmental historian, set out to study two cultures -- capitalist whalers in the late-19th-century United States and communist whalers in the mid-20th-century Soviet Union. She expected to find large differences.
That turned out not to be the case. Both groups saw whales purely in economic terms, leaving little room to ponder the fine line between life . . .
Bathsheba Demuth, Ph.D., an environmental historian, set out to study two cultures -- capitalist whalers in the late-19th-century United States and communist whalers in the mid-20th-century Soviet Union. She expected to find large differences.
That turned out not to be the case. Both groups saw whales purely in economic terms, leaving little room to ponder the fine line between life . . .