Sarah Aronson is the talented host of Grounding, a podcast on climate change and mental health. I met Sarah eight years ago when she was the anchor of The Write Question, a Montana Public Radio show on books. We had a wonderful conversation about a work on nature and technology I had just published, The Synthetic Age. A few years later, we spent a similarly engaging hour talking about Tenacious Beasts. I became a firm fan.
Sarah is a gentle and perceptive interviewer. She knows how to showcase the work. But she also knows how to showcase the person. And she wraps her skills with the most perfect radio voice imaginable. It helps that Sarah and I share a love of Southeast Alaska, its towering Sitka spruces and roiling salmon runs constantly threatening to steal your soul.
I was chuffed to bits when Sarah recently asked me to be a guest on Grounding to talk about how an environmental philosopher responds to climate change. She doubled-up on philosophers when she asked asked my colleague at the University of Montana, Soazig Le Bihan, to provide her own perspective. We each spoke about our relationship to landscapes and animals in the time of global change.
Enjoy listening to “Our Place Among the Deer.”
Christopher J. Preston 