I’m a journalist, essayist, poet, naturalist, amateur ecologist, and occasional political scientist who has been writing for more than 25 years.  The hundreds of articles I’ve published, along with my first book, This Land, and the second in progress, Rebels Against Oblivion, for Henry Holt & Co and expected out in 2027, all point to one end: the revealing of the hubris, environmental destruction, and vast unhappiness wrought by our culture of ceaseless economic and population growth, personal greed, technological worship, and divorce from the natural world.

This website is intended as an introduction to my work, as well as an archive of selections from it, and also as a pointer toward my Substack column, Denatured, and a place to ask for donations to keep me writing.

What am I covering at Denatured?  All that’s unfit for print in the mainstream enviro press:

• The madness of the idea that infinite growth is possible on a finite planet.
• The overshoot inherent in our vast numbers — growth leading to biophysical collapse that leads to social collapse.
• Gang Green environmental NGOs that have bought into growthism.
• The fight against Gang Green mounted by small grassroots groups built on integrity and truth-telling.
• The state of environmental journalism.
• The insolence of anthropocentrism — the demonstrably false belief that Homo sapiens is the center of the universe when in fact we are merely one species among many.