Tue, Jun 16
|Online via Zoom
Betsy Gaines Quammen American Zion, & David Quammen Spillover
Two books written for these very times! Betsy Gaines Quammen, American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West in conversation with David Quammen, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic. Co-hosted by Wildearth Guardians
Date, Time & Location
Jun 16, 2020, 6:00 PM
Online via Zoom
About the Event
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American Zion is the story of the ongoing feud between Mormon ranching family the Bundys, the federal government, and the American public. Historian Betsy Gaines Quammen examines the roots of the Bundys’ cowboy confrontations, and how history has shaped an often-dangerous mindset which today feeds the militia movement and threatens public lands, wild species, and American heritage.
David Quammen wrote Spillover seven years ago. A prescient book that discusses how the next disease cataclysm will be caused by a new virus coming to humans from wildlife, a phenomenon that experts call a “spillover.” In the book, he illuminates the dynamics of Ebola, SARS, bird flu, Lyme disease, and other emerging threats and tells the story of AIDS and its origins as it has never before been told. "Spillover is a real-life thriller with an outcome that affects us all."…