Killing Mother: Life is good, and it goes on …
Here’s a lovely essay on doom from killing Mother, via Gail. The whole thing is worth a read and makes a nice bookend with Gail’s recent post, “Coping With Our Demise”.
[…] Being the scientist and avid student of human behavior that I am, in reality, sadly, I do not hold out much hope for our species in the long run. Sure, we have solutions, but we lack the cultural and universal will that will be required to enact them. My authentic self just can’t buy into the rainbows and sunshine and happily ever after. I do have a bright vision for the future of nature. It is one that involves a Planet Earth with many, many fewer people on it (2 billion maximum), limited technology and cultures that value all life, not just human life, equally. This vision is a solution, but getting there is not going to be pretty. When one looks objectively at the numbers and the science, suggesting a painless and pretty solution is just not authentic. […]
That "forest" looks strangely akin to a wheat field! Who's to say that those pines/spruces dying is not exactly what that ecosystems needs – to create some openings in the canopy so that other species can thrive in the humid climate produced by the evergreens? Every now and again [sarcasm], Gaia gets it right and perhaps this is just such an instance. I'm not saying that there isn't plenty going wrong in the natural world, but that photo (with the article) may be something necessary in that ecosystem.
And KillingMother has a killer reading list:
http://killingmother.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html
Thank you Desdemona for featuring my humble blog. I love your work.