Articles by JMG
Let's live on the planet as if we intend to stay.
All Articles
-
Put a whole society on a tightrope without a net and wait
The venerable Tom's Dispatch has a powerful essay from Chip Ward called "How Efficiency Maximizes Catastrophe." It uses honeybee climate collapse disorder to illustrate a hugely important point: where nature overprotects, and uses redundancy with abandon, mankind attempts to engineer everything to the last decimal place, with all redundancy removed in the quest for maximum profit.
A suicidal cultural pattern, probably. Excerpt below the fold.
-
Making climate destabilization into art
Artist Chris Jordan portrays our culture's excessive waste and consumption.
-
The worst good news/bad news tale ever told
The bad news is that we're doing it by eating the fish that are eating the concentrated mercury in the food chain, further concentrating it in ... us. Mad as hatters we are!
This could also have been titled, "Another reason that coal is the enemy of the human race (or at least those members of it that like to eat)."
