Yesterday, I happened to meet a guy who works for the California Department of Fish and Game whose life’s work is hunting nutria, an invasive species of rodent shown at left. “What’s the deal with the nutria?” I asked? The …
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What Trump Wants on U.S. Climate Progress
It’s true that Trump is probably the greatest single one-person threat to our capacity to address climate change mitigation and adaptation, not only in America, but in the world as a whole. That’s because a) he won the 2024 U.S. …
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Is “Doing As You Please?” Good Advice?
Regarding English grammar, would you be well advised to “do as you please,” per the suggestion at left? The fact that we have adopted words and phrases from other languages doesn’t mean that butchering the English language comes without a …
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Dealing with Global Warming: Sorry, We’ve Already Been Warned
At left is an ad for an environmental conference in Dubai. While the event itself may be interesting, the answer to the question posed here is No. The entire world and everyone living on it has been warned for many …
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Our New Gilded Age
The big difference between the current Gilded Age and the last one is the fragility of the environment. In the late 19th Century, we weren’t roasting our planet and losing tens of thousands of species annually. Sure, environmental science was …
We May Look Back? Really?
As we take in these words of the great primatologist Jane Goodall, one obvious thought is this: How sure are we that we’ll still be here at some point in the future to have the opportunity to look back? In …
Confronting U.S. History
Many American schoolchildren in the southern part of the United States are still taught that the American Civil War was caused by northern aggression, where Union soldiers attacked the south, raped their women, and stole their land? German philosopher Georg …
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Are We Looking at the End?
Here’s an article in which some of our planet’s top minds predict the unraveling of human civilization sometime between 2040 and 2050, driven largely by the loss of biodiversity and climate change. According to these folks, the only way for …
Trump Supporters Don’t Seem to Understand this Simple Principle
At left is a profound thought, but it’s one that the vast majority of Trump supporters can’t relate to. The incoming president’s billionaire friends got rich by exploiting America’s workforce, not by helping the working class achieve its own affluence …
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“I’m Pro-Natural Gas”
On this one, a reader notes. “I’m pro every form of energy!!” Really? Would you say this is “who you are?” If so, I hope you’ll think about this a little bit more deeply. Once our civilization discovered fossil fuels …
