Articles by JMG
Let's live on the planet as if we intend to stay.
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Having survived Biosphere, she’s ready to enter the offset debate
A summary overview / intro to offsets by a woman who was one of the Biospherians.
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Put a whole society on a tightrope without a net and wait
The venerable Tom's Dispatch has a powerful essay from Chip Ward called "How Efficiency Maximizes Catastrophe." It uses honeybee climate collapse disorder to illustrate a hugely important point: where nature overprotects, and uses redundancy with abandon, mankind attempts to engineer everything to the last decimal place, with all redundancy removed in the quest for maximum profit.
A suicidal cultural pattern, probably. Excerpt below the fold.
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Making climate destabilization into art
Artist Chris Jordan portrays our culture's excessive waste and consumption.
