Award-winning environmental journalist, Zoë Schlanger, joins the show to speak about her new book, "The Light Eaters," a deep immersion into the drama of plant life and the complexity of this wild and awe-inspiring world that challenges our very understanding of agency, consciousness, and intelligence.
The unseen world of plant intelligence
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