Thoughts and sketches on humans, nature, running, and the end of the world
Humans are caught in a beautiful spider web of interdependence with all living beings, large and small, and the blue planet we inhabit. If they thrive, we thrive. If they suffer and die, we suffer and die. We need to act — right now, right here — for the survival of the multitude that we are.
Four of my sketches have been published in the latest issue of the UK Magazine Resurgence and Ecologist. I’m so excited about this! Resurgence & Ecologist, which started publication 45 years ago, is one of the (or the) longest-running environmental magazine in Britain, It’s published bimonthly and covers an eclectic mix of ecology, social...
Today more than 2000 demonstrations were held worldwide to demand climate action. The demonstrations were inspired by Swedish student Greta Thunberg, who started a school strike for the climate in August 2018 before the Swedish elections; after the elections, she continued to strike for the climate every Friday. On March 13, Greta has been...
I’ve just finished reading Judith Schwartz’s 2016 book, Water in plain sight. This is a follow-up / companion book to Cows save the planet and other improbable ways of restoring soil to heal the earth (2013), Schwartz’s first book on soil health. Water is essential to life and human communities, yet our species exercises little...
It seems that no matter how we feel about the climate crisis, the outcome is inaction. Perhaps we might think that climate change is not as bad as it seems, or maybe that it doesn’t exist all. Or we might believe that we are already doomed, and there is really nothing we can do....
Why do people do make the life decisions they make? Why somebody decides to become a revolutionary and another a dictator? Why some people become doctors and go to Haiti to cure AIDS and others become Kenneth Lay? After watching Walter Salles‘ The Motorcycle Diaries I couldn’t stop thinking about empathy, compassion, and revolution....
“Moral hazard” is the term economists use to describe the fact that insurance can change the behavior of the person being insured. If your office gives you and your co-workers all the free Pepsi you want—if your employer, in effect, offers universal Pepsi insurance—you’ll drink more Pepsi than you would have otherwise. If you...
