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Michael McCarthy — Nature, Joy, and Human Becoming

On Being with Krista Tippett

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I'm Not Formally Religious, but the Sense of Right and Wrong, I Suppose - I'm an Ethnic Catholic

michael mc carthy was a long time environ an editor of the ukane newspaper, the independent. He was a driving force behind that paper's campaign to explain the disappearance of the urban house sparrow in london. Also orchestrated the great british butterfly hunt. This became intertwined with his mother's death. Her mental breakdown when he was a child had first led him to take solace and joy in birds and butterflies. I spoke with him in two thousand eighteen....

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