From April 2012 — There is no question that Beresford-Kroeger, a botanist and medical biochemist who is an expert on the medicinal, environmental, andFrom April 2012 — There is no question that Beresford-Kroeger, a botanist and medical biochemist who is an expert on the medicinal, environmental, and nutritional properties of trees set out with all the right intentions with this series of essays on the many reasons—both known and obscure—as to why trees are essential to the planet and to humanity. With essay titles ranging from "A Suit for Sustainability", "The Paranormal", "The Forest, the Fairy, and the Child", "Two-Tier Agriculture", "Medicinal Wood" and "Green Sex and the Affairs of the Heart" (yes, this one is about the sex life of trees), among many others, two things become clear: that this woman is passionate about trees and, while she makes scientific and climactic arguments that can't be argued with, her more spiritual leanings and esoteric ideas can't be an easy sale for the average reader.
Which might explain why this book hasn't made any best-seller lists. It might have worked better were she a more gifted writer and better able to structure her ideas, but I found that from one essay to the other, some notions kept being repeated, while others were a bit too far-fetched for me, even though I have claimed in the past to be a Forest Fairy myself... I badly wanted to love this book, because I, too, passionately love trees (my name means "tree" in Hebrew, and I've often felt myself to be one), and because this book was a gift from a beloved aunt who's opinions matter to me and who took the time to have the book signed by the author, who is a good friend of hers, in my name. But really, it left me feeling quite dejected mostly. I can't fault the author for that; it's just that, like most other appeals for conservancy and the preservation of nature and animal species, it just seems like such a lost cause sometimes, even though I support as many of the worthy causes as I can. But maybe that's just my own lack of optimism getting in the way.
Update April 2021 — definitely need to reread this book. I have feeling I'll see what she's saying without cynicism getting in the way....more
Highly recommend. A must read to understand why this gender craze has taken hold of teenage girls. Clue: online indoctrination is one part, Queer theoHighly recommend. A must read to understand why this gender craze has taken hold of teenage girls. Clue: online indoctrination is one part, Queer theory taking over all schools under the guise of “anti-bullying”, another. Children are taught to question their gender and sexuality before they’ve even developed an actual sexuality. Parents are being lied to about a movement partly pushed through to sow confusion, division & anarchy. The well-meaning general public is deliberately kept uninformed on any other perspectives on the issues by liberal media, which has forced lifelong liberals like me to turn to conservative outlets who are the only ones who will publish unpopular views, which are anything to do with factual information.
I’ve been researching this on my own for several years now. This trend is very disturbing to me as someone who had a self-destructive adolescence which landed me in max security detention to protect me from MYSELF. Because I was self-harming in various ways, which is what girls are now doing by using binders & wanting their breasts amputated while still in their teens. I have no doubts at all that I, a tomboy and atypical girl, abused before puberty, & neurodivergent too, as it turns out, would have fallen under the spell of the gender siren song.
Queer theory can be summed up very simply: the goal is the removal of ALL safeguards. And access to children is key. Queer theorists embrace paedophelia & incest, though of course this isn’t much spoken of because this movement has been operating by stealth for decades. What is problematic to most “gender-critical” people like me is the fact this movement shields abusers and hurts even the interests of transgender people who don’t want to pretend biology is a spectrum in & of itself.
FYI bumped up my rating from 4 to 5 stars to even out all the 1-star reviews by activists who object to anything at all being said about this movement which isn't 150% supportive of transing the world. Trans people definitely should have rights & respect. But they are a tiny minority of the population. This movement, widely supported by the establishment & corporations is a massive propaganda machine designed to keep people in medical treatment for the rest of their lives when underlying conditions for their fixation with “gender identity” isn’t ever considered because asking questions is considered transphobic.
How affirming a child who is bound to change their mind about things in the normal course of life to medically halt puberty and endanger their health is a scandal which will have many legal repercussions in future. The Keira Bell case is just one of many more to come.
In response to a comment by someone saying "I might read this book", I've added the following: Can't hurt. It's informative and if you have children or are yourself a young person, these are things you need to know to combat what is literally a cult. Have I mentioned Martine Rothblatt? "She" has a cult called transhumanism and wants to cure death. "She" was involved in the gene sequencing project. "She" is a dangerous individual with a Ted Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTJpJ......more
I truly enjoyed Caitlin Doughty’s “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” about her first job in the funeral industry working as a cremation oven operator. Just thI truly enjoyed Caitlin Doughty’s “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” about her first job in the funeral industry working as a cremation oven operator. Just the kind of vividly macabre humour on the realities of death that I’m finding calming, somehow, in these scary, uncertain times. Counterintuitive? You bet! I really liked Doughty’s most recent “Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?” and will be listening to her second book soon. Hopefully she’s got a lot more publishing ventures ahead of her. I’ll be waiting! ...more
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