What about all those for whom poverty is fate, not lifestyle choice? Thoreau is thus the laureate of decluttering, helping us to imagine alternatives to our beguilement by consumer experience. His own writing is similarly fine-grained in its attention to ecological detail. If he was parsimonious in domestic economy, he was prodigal in descriptions of nature, spending words extravagantly. Such moments valuably reawaken us to the sights and textures of our natural world, giving this potentially some traction against its erasure in favour — Trumpishly — of an oil pipeline or golf course.
For if there is a poetics of nature in Thoreau, there is always also a politics. But this is not to say that in his work Thoreau retreats complacently into the woods. After a tumultuous election, the scientific community marched to demonstrate the importance of science to citizens of the earth. Protesters gathered to encourage policymakers to make policy based on scientific evidence; provide funding for research and discourage political attacks on scientific integrity.
Many scientific organizations were represented, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of the biggest scientific societies in the country. One outspoken co-chair of the march included Bill Nye. The march took place across the country and the world.
The march in Boston had 70, people! Not only modern times have used the idea of peacefully protesting regimes. Who knows, without Thoreau we might not have achieved much of the social progress we rely on today. View Cart.
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