Editor’s note: Hallam and I have been corresponding for years. I find his intransigence bracing, his calls for a citizen uprising against ecocidal elites simple commonsense. His cri-de-co
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My Series at Truthdig on the False Greening of Economic and Population Growth
In my ongoing series at Truthdig.com, I ask whether the promise of a painless and ecologically sound transition to a post-carbon future — so-called “green growth” — is a fee
The Sane Society
“The fact that millions of people share…so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same mental pathology does not make these people san
The Forest Nearest Me
I am blessed that out my back door is a forest of healthy tall unlogged hemlocks, whose evergreen loveliness keeps me from going mad in the long winters of the Catskills. It is a particular tor
Energy is Eternal Delight
There are visions sometimes in the middle of a summer’s day that can only happen in the woods. I was on the banks of a pond off Mount Tremper, in the Catskill Mountains of New York, with my daugh
The Music of the Waters
After a long winter drought here in the Catskills, it is springtime and the water has come, a week of heavy rain. The forest is thankful with upstretched arms, the leaves erect, the ferns sitting
Hyper-visitation, the Fate of the National Parks, and the Tourism Takeover of a Small Town
The trouble at Arches National Park starts at the entrance during the spring and summer, when visitation is at its highest. First, there’s a 40-minute queue of idling traffic to reach the fee b
Addressing Climate Change Will Not ‘Save the Planet’
The dismal reality is that green energy will save not the complex web of life on Earth but the particular way of life of one domineering species. CONSERVATION BIOLOGY FINDS itself in a terrifying
Population Toxification, Part II: How Family Planning Lost its Way
Contrast the blindness about human numbers now commonplace on both left and right with the wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr. In a speech upon acceptance of the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Pa
Population Toxification, Part I: How We Learned not to Talk about Human Numbers
A few years ago I attended a carbon tax panel in Manhattan, the goal of which was to brainstorm ideas for reducing the carbon footprint of Americans. After the event was over, I pressed one of the