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Book Review: Total Garbage

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Barbara McMichael
March 02, 2025

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Humes begins with what can only be described as a shock-and-awe sentence in his latest book, called “Total Garbage.” Just chew on this for a moment: “You swallowed,” Humes writes, “285 pieces of plastic today.”

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Book Review: The Air They Breathe

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Barbara McMichael
October 03, 2024

Reno, Nevada has the dubious distinction of being identified as the fastest-warming city in the country due to greenhouse gas emissions, and in recent years Hendrickson’s young patients are increasingly suffering from the effects of wildfire smoke, heat exhaustion, asthma, and even dangerous new virus outbreaks.

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GREEN ROUNDUP - “The Future Lies Ahead”

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Peter Corning
October 21, 2021

For a species that literally owes its remarkable evolutionary success over time to its social behavior and its many innovations (we have rightly been called “The Self-Made Man” by the anthropologist Jonathan Kingdon), we have been very slow to recognize, much less respond to what can fairly be called an existential survival crisis.  Some 99 percent of all the species that have ever evolved are now extinct. We may soon join them. Unless…

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A Strategic Plan for the Year 3000? Surely, You’re Joking!

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Peter Corning
September 11, 2020

The first five million years of our evolution went very well, overall. The next 980 years could be a problem.

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“Sustainable Development”: How’s It Going?

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Peter Corning
July 30, 2019

The U.N.’s original definition of the term has been corrupted, and the current U.N. iteration (in a set of 17 Development Goals) is an overreach.  Either way it’s failing.   What is to be done? This currently fashionable concept first arose in the 1980s.  A U.N. report stressed that it should be about basic needs.  Our current emphasis on “growth” and increased “wealth” is unsustainable. I believe we must return to the original 1987 U.N. definition, which focused on our basic needs, and make it a global priority going forward.

 

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