The Environmental Book Club

 The Parable Of The Talents, March 16th 2025 Questions:  https://www.readinggroupguides.com/reviews/parable-of-the-talents/guide Overview:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4ZsaSlCxgg Interview:  https://joshunda.medium.com/an-interview-with-octavia-butler-2004-8933300df98a  

 The light eaters by Zoe Schlanger Questions:  What's  sacrilegious about felling a four-hundred-year-old tree for decking—or even a thirty-year-old pine for toilet paper? What assumptions are questioned and new understanding offered of plant life? Does this book change your relationship to plants? If so how? How should plants be treated in the city? Outside the city? What does it say that "The Secret Life Of Plants" was controversial? How has the scientific community received The Light Eaters? How are people being misinformed about plants? Is plant intelligence foreign to our understanding of humans? Is The Light Eaters an example of environmental journalism? Is the book related to the climate crisis? If so how? Interview with the author.