8.10 Yuvan Aves: On Losing Nature and Learning to Care

What if the key to environmental action isn’t outrage, but observation? And what if the real climate crisis is a crisis of attention?

In this powerful conversation, nature writer and activist Yuvan Aves talks about his lyrical and politically urgent book Intertidal. Set along Chennai’s disappearing coasts and wetlands, the book prompts readers to notice, remember, and reconnect with the living world around them. 

Yuvan shares how he teaches children to fall in love with their local ecologies by example rather than instruction and how Indian nature writing cannot be separated from caste, class, and climate politics. 

This episode reminds us that nature is not a distant wilderness but something alive in our cities, streets, and schools, and to simply pay attention.

Books, shows, and films mentioned in this episode:

• Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane
• Tiger Lessons by Sannapureddy Venkatarami Reddy
• Marginlands by Arati Kumar-Rao

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