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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/interviews/take-seriously-interview-ecologist-author-daniel-botkin/"></div><p>By <a href="http://www.lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/sam-ribakoff">Sam Ribakoff</a></p>
<p><em>Daniel Botkin is a world-renowned ecologist and professor emeritus at UC Santa Barbara’s school of Environmental Studies, who has worked on many conservation efforts around the world, including at California’s Mono Lake and Michigan’s Isle Royale National Park. He’s also a published author with a knack for poetic titles; </em>The Moon in the Nautilus Shell, Discordant Harmonies<em>, and </em>Beyond the Stoney Mountains<em> all invoke the beauty and complexity of nature and the environment.</em> <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/interviews/take-seriously-interview-ecologist-author-daniel-botkin/#more-3536" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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“Take it Seriously”: An Interview with Ecologist and Author Daniel Botkin

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thomas-hawk

<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/interviews/sam-mcpheeters-isnt-scared-future/"></div><p><em>Sometimes you have to wait for the weight of a novel to hit you. Other times, you read a novel set 44 years in the future that’s about fake news, citizens having no trust in the media or government institutions, a refugee crisis, and an authoritarian police department, and those 44 years don’t feel so far away.</em> <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/interviews/sam-mcpheeters-isnt-scared-future/#more-2780" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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Sam McPheeters Isn&#8217;t Scared of the Future

<strong>Sam Ribakoff is a journalist and documentary filmmaker from Long Beach, California.</strong>

Sam Ribakoff

Whose Utopia Gets to Be Built?: An Interview with Eric Nusbaum

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

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"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

Sam Ribakoff is a journalist and documentary filmmaker from Long Beach, California.