Speaker: David Dougherty Topic: The Publication of ‘The Great Disruption.’ Time: Nov 8, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Biography: Our speaker today is TD Dougherty, a retired environmental […]
Our Planet Is Heating Up. Why Are Climate Politics Still Frozen?
In 1621, the Dutch East India Company—the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, or V.O.C.—arrived at the Banda Islands with a formidable navy. The global spice market was fiercely competitive, and a number […]
The Very Hungry Humans
We’re in an outbreak currently. But I don’t mean the COVID pandemic. It turns out that outbreak has a second definition: it means when populations grow dramatically large, beyond their […]
Being Salmon, Being Human
“Being Salmon, Being Human is a fantastic narrative-with-moral-message.” After reading John Piccolo’s mesmerizing review of Martin Lee Mueller’s wonderful book, I was enthused enough to get it promptly, and it […]
Our final century: Will the Human Race Survive the Twenty-first Century
BOOK REVIEW by Steven B. Kurtz, CACOR member. Martin Rees _Our Final Century_ (2003) This is as macro as it gets, folks. Multiverses, big bangs, solar systems, and yes, our planet […]