Dear Clara — what’s in a name?
<p>Dear Clara and Lily. I’ve just seen a cute video on instagram of a cool bird — huge and grey with a big beak and and an appearance that would be at home amongst the dinosaurs. I’m guessing that’s why the ‘Best Birds Planet’ Instagram account shared it. The text they’ve added below is just two heart-eyed-face emojis and that, for me, is where the problem lies.</p>
<p>I often get this feeling when I see animals displayed this way on social media: Cute animal, who cares what it is, it’s just cute, like it and keep on scrolling. I’ve struggled to articulate even to myself why this makes me so uncomfortable. But I think it’s because it says something about our increasing distance from the natural world. When we can’t engage, when don’t see any advantage in naming something, its value is just for us to enjoy or laugh at it. Once we name it, it perhaps becomes its own entity.</p>
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