Andrea Wulf
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Jun
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And in 1832, he writes a paragraph
where he kind of says, you know, irrigation, deforestation, all really terrible.
And then he says, what's really bad are the gases that come out of the industrial centers.
I mean, he didn't understand CO2 yet, but he understood that this is not good for the environment.
So, you know, I've always called him the kind of forgotten father of environmentalism.
You know, he really understands...
the threat to nature and he warns about it and then i mean he then inspires people just you know like john muir george perkins marsh who then take this and um become more politically active in it humboldt does not do that but he he because he sees nature as this web of life this interconnected whole he understands i mean it's simple things like he sees for example at the
Venezuelan coast, he sees how ruthless pearl fishing has completely destroyed the oyster stock.
So he kind of under so he, you know, he watches, he looks around, and he kind of sees the consequences of the kind of the devastating effects of humankind's intervention in nature.
Yes.
And I think, you know, because he says he was very much guided by Foster's ideas.
I mean, they were friends.
So he, you know, Foster was his mentor.
Foster was 15 years older.
They traveled together through Europe.
And as Humboldt is traveling through South America, he sees again and again how, for example, the colonists and the missionaries treat the indigenous peoples.
he sees slavery there.
I mean, one of the very first things that he sees when he arrives in South America is a slave market.
And he says that made him a kind of a lifelong abolitionist.
So he's very much influenced by Forster's way of kind of looking at humans.
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