Award-Winning Science Journalist Zoë Schlanger Talks About Eco-Anxiety, Plant Intelligence & Sustainable Fashion
* Zoë (Schlanger) is an award-winning science journalist and expert in anthropocene aesthetics, and occupies a rare position. While trained in the wonkiest of disciplines, she also stands at the forefront of our greatest international crisis: climate breakdown. If one thinks of environmental destruction as a sort of invisible war, with fronts of disaster and millions of civilian casualties, Zoë’s work is often to survey or excavate the damage, whether by reporting on species extinction, cancer caused by corporate polluters, or places where water is running out. When I spoke with her, I wanted to understand not just her work, but the experience of confronting daily, through the intimacy of reporting, a problem that’s almost too big for us to comprehend. (The word for depression caused by this situation is eco-anxiety.) …
*Excerpt via SSENSE; interview by Sarah Leonard, photography by Heather Sten
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