The recognition is finally dawning that Planet Earth is in deep trouble. In terms of the five stages of coping with one’s impending demise, we seem to be moving, as a society, from Stage One: Denial, to Stage Two: Anger.
Last week, I happened upon the much-acclaimed TV series from the U.K. Dark Mirror – a kind of Twilight Zone for the 21st Century. In the…
“By comparison to what it could have been, it’s a miracle,” said George Monbiot, climate writer for The Guardian. “By comparison to what it should have…
Along with panicky denunciations from the shocked-horrified-and-appalled Republican establishment, there was much cheering and applause from Donald Trump’s zombie supporters when he called for “a total…
Mark Zuckerberg plans to donate most of his wealth (currently valued at about $45 billion) to the cause of “personalized learning, curing disease, connecting people and…
“Whew,” Bernie Marcus mutters to himself. “As long as everyone’s talking about SeaWorld, they won’t be coming after my Georgia Aquarium. At least not for the…
During the GOP debate last night on the Fox Business channel, moderator Maria Bartiromo put this word cloud up on the screen. “We asked Facebook to…
In his new book Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change, George Marshall tells the story of what happened…
What a week for climate change. A blizzard of new studies and reports. Let’s start in the Middle East – you know, that place where we…
Everybody loves a hero. And we all would like to be heroes. Heroism is something we humans strive for. Other kinds of animals behave heroically, too,…
A footnote to my earlier post about the quandary now facing SeaWorld. Much credit for what’s happening in the marine circus world goes to the movie…
If you were the new CEO of SeaWorld, what would you do? Last week, you saw yet another nail being driven into the coffin of your…
A former soldier who served in Iraq, comes home to a nation in denial, droughts and floods, mass migrations, and an epidemic of anxiety and depression.
Here we go again. The factory farms make a small concession to public opinion, and the animal welfare establishment falls all over itself in joy, calling…
For six years, Hercules and Leo have endured experiments like having electrodes inserted into their muscles so that researchers at Stony Brook University can study the…
The gentle creek that flows down Water Canyon turned deadly this week as it exploded into a flash flood killing 15 people, most of them children.…
For several years we’ve been watching other species setting off on mass migrations as our planet undergoes irreversible changes. Now we’re beginning to see mass migrations…
It’s an El Niño year, and so despite the fact that we’re in a long term drought here in the Southwest, it’s been a rainy summer.…
Well, everything seems to be back to normal on Wall Street after a rocky start to the week. So what happened? Are we OK? We’re certainly…
On a summer Sunday afternoon, Highway 12 in Southern Utah is busy with cars and luxury coaches ferrying vacationers from all over the world to Bryce…