Our beautiful American Earth. Let's not waste it.
The American earth is a great and beautiful place. We have always cared for it and protected it pretty well. Let's not waste it all now. This blog is about the beauty of the American earth. It is mainly a picture book of the American Earth and where it is headed in the near and …
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Schwabackers landing on a clear day, Snake River in Teton National Park in Wyoming Wildflowers on Teton Pass, Teton National Park in Wyoming White Columbins on Teton Pass, Teton National Park in Wyoming Teton dawn panorama, Teton National Park in Wyoming Sticky Geraniums on Teton Pass, Teton National Park in Wyoming Wildflowers on a rainy …
White foam and brown sand. Pacifica California Surf, Rocks and Beach, Pacifica California Foggy beach, Pacifica California Pacifica afternoon beach at high tide. Pacifica California Pink sunset surf, Pacifica California Golden Gate near San Francisco Shore birds, Pacifica California Sea Gull on the San Francisco Ferry
I just finished reading a couple of articles by Adam Gopnik in the New Yorker. Both articles are about Adam Smith and both were written a few years ago (2010 and 2012). The two articles are "Market Man" in the New Yorker of October 11, 2010 and "Barack, Mitt and Adam Smith" in the The …
A lot of people are getting very depressed about the fact that global warming in now out of control and that there is nothing that we can do about it. I think that it is true that global warming is close to out-of-control and that it will be difficult to stop. The real problem seems …
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I wrote this article while reading Adam Gopnik’s new book, A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism. In my opinion this is a great book about liberalism, both in the past and right now. I think it is also a very important book. This article is a mixture of quotes from the book and my …
The Brazilian Rain Forest is in desperate straits right now. And this is mostly because of one man: Jar Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro is the new autocrat who was elected President of Brazil in October of 2018. A new report from the UN has just announced that human activities like logging and clear cutting forests for agriculture …
Fred Pearce is one of my favorite writers. He has a dozen or so books out, most of them are about climate or environment or food or population, you know, cheerful stuff. In 2008 he wrote he wrote what I think is still one of the best books on climate change around. This book is …
