Amanda Scott
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 25 Feb
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It crosses a whole slew of tribal political boundaries.
There are people in Upsewage Creek from right across the political spectrum.
So this gets people talking to each other.
It gets us seeing each other as human beings, as real people, instead of figures who are painted a particular colour of the tribes that we're being told we have to hate.
If we're going to make it through this very obvious transition point towards a future that we would actually be proud to leave behind, then building communities is absolutely at the core of how we survive.
So if you have any free time, any free bandwidth, any free compassion to care for the state of your local rivers and lakes and oceans, then there are plenty of ways you can get involved.
Have a look online.
I've put a bunch of links in the show notes and there are plenty of others.
I also want to give an honourable mention to a book that Claire and I spoke about before we started recording and didn't get to in our actual conversation.
Drinkable Rivers by, I think, Leanne Faux and Martin van der Schaaf.
It does what it says in the tin.
I will read a little bit from the website.
During her childhood in a densely populated suburb of Rotterdam, Leanne Faux was already amazed by the wilderness in the area, the moss between the pavement tiles and the herons in the ditches.
As a twenty-something, she ventures into the real wilderness for the first time.
During a canoe trip through the Canadian Arctic, she discovers that she can drink from the river.
But when she returns three years later, she can no longer do so.
The river is poisoned, the ecosystem disturbed.
That experience stays with her, and since then, Foa has been drawing attention to drinkable rivers and are urging people to take action.
In this book, a rich tapestry of travelogue, memoirs, reportage, philosophical musings and poetry, she takes the readers on her adventure along rivers on four continents.
So I put a link to that in the show notes as well, it sounds grand.
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