Archive For The “Ecology” Category
I recently read The End of Nature by Bill McKibben. The book was originally published in 1990, just two years after James Hansen testified before the senate that human-caused climate change was a genuine phenomenon. I was amazed to realise how much we already knew about the impact of our activities on the planet’s ecology [...]
I’ve been particularly busy this week, and haven’t got around to producing any new material for this blog. On the other hand, I have written a piece for Sublime Magazine on the aftermath of Copenhagen – inspired by this extraordinary piece of journalism from Mark Lynas. I’ve also realised that I haven’t yet posted the [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the likeliest outcomes of the next century or so, and reflecting on how the possibilities they hold out seem to run the gamut from large improvements in the way we live now to total societal collapse. Duncan Campbell, host of the Living Dialogues podcasts, is a keen proponent [...]
I listened recently to a fascinating dialogue between Duncan Campbell and George Lakoff (it consists of three episodes, available here, here and here). In it, Lakoff mentioned that a key reason for the success of the Republican party in the US in recent years has been their ability to capture the imagination of the American [...]
When I was a child, and into my teenage years and early twenties, I absolutely devoured fiction. Some time around the age of 22 or 23, though, I veered away from it and begun a search for ‘The Truth’. In terms of my reading habits, this manifested as an almost exclusive concentration on non-fiction. Yoga [...]
