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Rowan Hooper ローワンフーパー

20 Oct, 7 tweets, 4 min read

@inkerley

#COP26 is the biggest party of the year, and every party needs a soundtrack.
So me and @inkerley have made one 1/
newscientist.com/article/229366…

It’s a collaborative spotify playlist so please do add songs you think we need for the party:
open.spotify.com/playlist/67Qng… 2/

@billieeilish

The rules for inclusion are pretty loose:
Some very obviously are about#climatechange, such as @billieeilish’s “All the Good Girls Go to Hell” 3/

@amandapalmer

Or @amandapalmer’s Drowning in the Sound 4/

But then we have Tupac’s “To Live & Die in L.A.” – it’s more a gangsta story than a climate crisis one, but with parts of LA reaching 49 Celsius (121 Farenheit), the track has a new meaning. So it gets on the list 5/

Kate Bush is on there with Cloudbusting as it’s *obviously* an early song exploring the dangers of geoengineering 😉 6/

@thomyorke

And there are lots more, including of course @thomyorke (twice) and @GretaThunberg with @the1975. RT and add your own to the party list 😍 7/

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Rowan Hooper ローワンフーパー

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22 Oct

@ymalhi

I went to see #Dune with ecosystem scientist @ymalhi and we chatted about the deep science of Frank Herbert's world on the podcast. We do go into the sandworms. A quick taster: 1/
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Frank Herbert was way ahead of his time. In making the link between living things and the planetary system of Arrakis, Herbert anticipated what James Lovelock did with #Gaia 2/

But Herbert was probably aware of the work of Soviet biologist Vladimir Vernadsky whose book The Biosphere (written in 1926!) argued that life is the geological force that shapes the Earth. Vernadsky is a Russian legend but less known in the west 3/

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