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Inga Simpson on The Thinning and our fragile future
A solar eclipse, destruction of landscape and animal species, and a group of people hiding in a national park.
INGA SIMPSON reveals their connections to JENNIFER SOMERVILLE.
It was a podcast by a British writer about the disappearance of moths and other insects in the UK that first alerted writer Inga Simpson to the phrase, ‘The Thinning’. That expression refers to a reduction in numbers, rather than extinction, and Simpson has used it as the title of ...
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