One could say that the climate changes and systemic impacts we are now facing, that threaten to disrupt critical life-support systems, have been our destiny since we first appeared as a species, inquisitive and clever. From the making of our first tool, we were on our way. Looking back at our past, there appears an […]

We can remind ourselves that we are on and in a journey, this species of ours, arrived at this point in the story, this moment of danger and destruction, this moment of the climate change mirror and the habitat loss mirror and the population growth mirror and the violence mirror, this moment when we can […]

From article in NYTimes “Ted Cruz Surges Past Donald Trump to Lead in Iowa Poll” by Trip Gabriel DEC. 12, 2015 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/us/politics/ted-cruz-surges-past-donald-trump-to-lead-in-iowa-poll.html?_r=0 “The poll provided a snapshot of how conservative Iowa’s likely Republican voters are. Nearly six in 10 say climate change is a hoax. More than half want mass deportations of illegal immigrants. Six […]

It’s easy to feel frustrated with the pace of our response to climate change, to feel that we should be doing more, making changes faster, etc. Some 45 or so years have passed since we first became aware of the potentially dire consequences of our behavior on the planet and still forests come down and […]

I read in a recent NYTimes article the statement, “The poll provided a snapshot of how conservative Iowa’s likely Republican voters are. Nearly six in 10 say climate change is a hoax.” That is a remarkable number, given the data available, the evidence, the hard science of green house gases trapping heat, and almost universal […]

In Paris, we see world leaders struggle to take action to constrain climate change, to take hold of history and direct its course. The story in Last Stop Before Tomorrow asks how in control of the unfolding narrative of the human enterprise we are, to what degree we tell the story of which we are […]