It seems to me that as we continue to live through and, in fits and spurts, eventually emerge from this pandemic, we will look upon all the suffering that has been and will still be, and recognize that humanity now stands at the proverbial crossroads where two roads diverged in…

If this piece were being written for the satirical publication The Onion, it would theatrically laud war-mongering autocrat Vladmir Putin as an environmental hero — one who created more incentive for the world to act decisively on 30 years of cumulatively ignored climate science and watered-down IPCC reports than any…

As Putin’s army rolls through Ukraine, bombing infrastructure and civilian areas indiscriminately while maintaining that they are only responding to Ukrainian aggression by targeting specific military installations, a special kind of cognitive disconnect is growing for the 11 million Russians that have family in the Ukraine. In addition to yesterday’s…

I used to think that the infatuation of the U.S. viewing audience with all things Zombie — from the incredibly popular TV series “The Walking Dead,” to high quality big budget and little budget Zombie flicks like “World War Z” and “28 Days Later” or to any number of subpar…

Note: While very recent extreme weather events made more likely by climate change have continued non-stop since we got back from our own excursion (1-in-1,000 year flooding in China, Tennessee and Newark abetted by back-to-back Category 4 hurricanes and deadly flooding in Germany & Benelux; massive wildfires in Greece, Turkey…

Nearly a century ago, mathematician Alfred Whitehead coined the genius phrase, “The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness,” to explain the human tendency to confuse abstract concepts with physical reality. For example, the economic, legal, political, monetary and even societal structures in which we humans operate on a daily basis are constructs…

If you’re hoping that we will just magically technofix our way out of the worst effects of the Climate Crisis, then you might as well get in the back seat of a Tesla on a winding country road and “hope” that the full auto-pilot feature — the one that you…

Fifty years ago, a dedicated young team of researchers from MIT, assembled by Jay Forrester (the father of Systems Dynamics) and led by Dr. Dennis Meadows, embarked on a two year study to model data to explore what they considered a foregone conclusion — that there is a limit to…

PLEASE PANIC AND DON’T CARRY ON Most rational political leaders in the world are now in agreement that climate change is real and that we should start taking careful and methodical steps towards drawing down our Global carbon emissions. No need to panic, the adults in the room have got…