Lyndsie Bourgon: Why the Morality of Tree Stealing Is Not As Simple as Many Traditional Environmentalists Would Like to Think

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.

In this episode, Andrew is joined by Lyndsie Bourgon, author of Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods.

Lyndsie Bourgon is a writer, oral historian, and 2018 National Geographic Explorer based in British Columbia. She writes about the environment and its entanglement with history, culture, and identity. Her features have been published in The Atlantic, Smithsonian, the Guardian, the Oxford American, Aeon, The Walrus, and Hazlitt, among other outlets.