Earth: the final frontier
by John D. Gunther Since I was a small child, I have always known that there is a better way for us to live. What I didn't know at that age was exactly what that meant. Fast forward to now,…
Greece is the word
The following lengthy quote is from a learned Greek scholar: So revolutions broke out in city after city, and in places where the revolutions occured late the knowledge of what had happened previously in other places caused still new extravagances…
Fukushima, denial, and the ethics of extinction
by Mary Poppins, a long-time environmental activist who can be reached via email at info@fukushimaresponse.com Fukushima The problem first became apparent in 1985. I was sitting on a porch in the mountains in Arizona reading a Scientific American article by…
When All is Said and Done
Fascism has come to the industrialized world, and the evidence is particularly clear in the United States. As I wrote in a book published in 2004 regarding the executive branch of the U.S. government: [The administration] is characterized by powerful…
Arts and Minds
The overdeveloped left hemisphere of my brain tells me one thing. My emerging artistic side tells me another. But before we get to the core of the issue, a little personal history is warranted. During my final decade in the…
Killing the Natives: The Ecology of Systematic Extinction
by Sandy Krolick As Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega summarized, it seems the USA was “isolated” -- a regular persona non grata -- at the Summit of the Americas last week in Columbia. Nor were our military and Secret Service ‘dicks’…
Channeling Kurt Vonnegut
I presented at SUNY-Fredonia on 2 April 2012. The standing-room-only audience, in a room with 200 chairs, included about 30 students from a class on Kurt Vonnegut and similar number from a class on environmental chemistry. I was informed the…