Food for Thought
“There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.”
Percy Williams Bridgman
Monthly Archives: October 2008
Getting to the root of the problem
Question: What is more fundamental to sustainability than fixing climate change, even more certain to lead to catastrophe if unfixed, far more politically sensitive, but even more essential to passing on a habitable planet to our grandchildren and their children? … Continue reading
Swingin’ in Virginia
This weekend we drove back north to the ancestral homeland in Arlington, Virginia, for my high school reunion — I can’t bring myself to reveal which one it was except that it’s been quite some time. The return trip brought … Continue reading
What could be worse than the global financial meltdown?
And you thought the mortgage crisis was bad . . . Even as people the world over perch on the edge of their chairs, chewing their fingernails in barely contained panic at the global financial meltdown, the BBC reports that … Continue reading
We have met the enemy . . . and they is us
Why is the world in the trouble that it’s in? We could cite a long litany of reasons, but ultimately it boils down to the large and increasing number of people on earth, and our large and increasing appetites, broadly … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity, Biophilia, Science, Sustainability
Tagged population, research
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Handle with care
[This recent editorial in the journal Nature captures one of our central challenges as a global society so well that I quote the article here in full. The article refers specifically to a forest in Poland that is among the … Continue reading
