Daphne du Maurier’s The Birds predicted environmental crisis 70 years ago
Daphne du Maurier’s The Birds predicted environmental crisis 70 years ago: In Daphne du Maurier’s short story, The Birds (1952), a change in bird behaviour is linked to the impact of technological developments after the second world war. Birds, as the 2022 State of the World’s Birds report warns, are “barometers for planetary health”. Nearly …