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As We Go, So Goes Earth
“You may perhaps be familiar with comedian George Carlin’s routine, The Planet is Fine, a piece which is brought to my attention at least once a week. In it, Carlin’s main point is that…
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Killing while Dying
“If you’ve been reading my columns in this space, then you know I write about unspeakably terrible topics. Primarily, I write about extinction. Extinction is the death of the last individual of a…
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Deer in Headlights: Young People & Abrupt Climate Change
“Ongoing, abrupt climate change is rooted in human behavior underlain by natural selection. Ongoing, irreversible climate change is rooted in human behavior underlain by natural selection. These young people have no more control over abrupt, irreversible climate…
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Preparing to Die (at The Existentialist Café)
“I suspect I appreciate At the Existentialist Café more than most readers. After all, my expansive reading of existential philosophers during the decade of the 1990s was critical to the development of my own, personal…
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At Least We Will Have Tried
“A global economic depression will cause an even faster rate of environmental change. Will it be sufficient to reduce aerosol masking enough to cause loss of habitat for human animals? If not, will…
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Better versus More
“Where does ownership take us? We need only investigate reality, based on recent trends, to see where we’re headed. And that place is to the edge of extinction. To the notion that might…
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Lying Flat & Quiet Quitting in The Anthropocene
“I was not a climate scientist. I still am not. I am reasonably knowledgeable about climate science, however. As part of my ecological research, I have been studying climate science since I was…
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24 Hours to Live?
“Albert Einstein, upon growing tired of answering questions about his thoughts on relativity, once gave this response: ‘Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour.…
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Vertebrates Can’t & Won’t “Keep Up”
“Based on the peer-reviewed papers I have been citing for more than a decade, and the supporting papers that have been published more recently, I cannot imagine it will take centuries to achieve…
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Not at All Foggy Now, Mr. Fermi
“American professor and science educator Carl Sagan and Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist I. S. Shklovskii speculated in their 1966 book, Intelligent Life in the Universe, that technological civilizations will either destroy themselves within…