The best life insurance for any species in an ecosystem is to contribute usefully to sustaining the lives of other species, a lesson we are only just beginning to learn […]
Indigenous wisdom
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. Chief Seattle (1780-1866), Chief of […]
A limerick that captures the fraught political scene in USA.
Trump’s views are parochial, true. For he has quite a narrow, dark view. His only solution: Revenge, retribution, And being an autocrat, too. Joan Perrin, Port Jefferson Station, New York […]
Stop climate change
The most obvious way to protect coral reefs is to limit global climate change. Many governments will prioritize other, cheaper ways to promote reef conservation. Don’t be fooled; the biggest […]
Ancient Sunlight
Industrial civilisation is inherently expansionary. It cannot simply “stabilize” at a sustainable level. In thermodynamic terms, it has no steady-state setting. Collapse is the inevitable outcome of a system whose […]