As I reflect on 2022, I am buoyed by all the evidence of progress being made in our global efforts to confront the damage we are doing to our only home. But I am, if anything, even more pessimistic than… Read More »CoP27, CoP15, the Party’s Over. Where Does the World Stand as 2022 Comes to its End?
If they exist, the gods are maliciously cruel to us lowly humans. Facing a slow but existential series of environmental changes due to our own unthinking misuse of the planet, we are being distracted by lesser but more immediate crises. … Read More »Climate Change Does Not Wait For Us to Pay Attention (and IPCC Needs to do a Better Job at Raising Our Concern)
You’ve all heard that coral reefs are being seriously degraded by climate change and other human interference; that they are on their way out and could be gone globally by mid-century. You’ve also likely heard of amazing new technologies to… Read More »Coral Reefs – Reality vs Curation, Reliability, Greenwashing, Pollyanna Media, and Our Own Irrational Perception of the World.