Article
The Dark Green in the Anthropocene: Industrial Agriculture and Plant Blindness Along the Mississippi
The Anthropocene Curriculum
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2019
Disciplines
Abstract
Seen from above, the banks of the Mississippi appear to be flanked by rich expanses of plant life. Yet this verdant appearance is deceptive, as Heather I. Sullivan explains in this essay, considering the effects of industrialization, plant blindness, and what she terms the “dark green.”
Publisher
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International
Citation Information
Sullivan, H.I. (2019). The dark green in the anthropocene: Industrial agriculture and plant blindness along the Mississippi. The Anthropocene Curriculum.