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Pet Peeves: Absurd Sci Fi Films Division

            Settle into my seat on a flight from Heathrow to JFK. Scan through movie options. Banshees of Inn...

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Fire & Flood
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Deep Past
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endangered animals
rapid climate change
global deforestation
fragging

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The Ragged Edge of the World



Winds of Change
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Afterword to the softbound edition.


The Octopus and the Orangutan
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The Future In Plain Sight
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The Parrot's Lament
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Silent Partners
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Affluence and Discontent
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The Alms Race
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Apes, Men, & Language
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Drought, Polar Vortex, and Climate Change


Thursday March 13, 2014

The Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media has put up a superb video in which climate scientists walk the viewer through the likely links between California's drought, the frigid winter in the Midwest and Northeast, and changes in the Arctic sea ice and planetary winds resulting from a warming globe. No question climate is complex, but their scenario is compelling. Well worth eight minutes of anyone's time.

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Short Take

THE MANY LIVES OF A CONSERVATION MASTERPIECE

My article on John Perlin's masterpiece,  A Forest Journey, was published by TIME. The book offers an orignal view on the rise and fall of civilliztions, and the book had an epic journey of its own since it was first published. One message of my piece is that even a masterpiece has a rough time staying in print today.



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