May 23, 2022
The house where I grew up was perpetually catching on fire. It wasn’t all bad. Although I fought with my brothers and sisters sometimes, we really had a beautiful family. Sunday dinner was especially nice. Dad always asked each of us what we did that week. If one...
Apr 19, 2022
There are multiple factors that influence the way we as human beings see the world. Education, culture, and particular disciplines, professions, and institutions all provide us with narratives, conceptual frameworks, and biases. These become lenses through which see...
Feb 22, 2022
The pandemic has been driving many of us stir-crazy, although obviously it goes far beyond the usual kind of stir-crazy. The pandemic, and its lockdowns and travel restrictions, and some people’s theories about the pandemic and about the government’s response to it,...
Jan 13, 2022
Regular readers of this blog will have noticed that I’ve been silent for several months. I’m hoping that in the new year I can get back to a regular monthly schedule. In an earlier post, I argued that formal land tenure systems—including policies and laws aimed at...
Jul 2, 2021
The environmental crises and the coming regime shifts When the biodiversity crisis, global climate change, degradation of soils, and the other dimensions of environmental destruction now unfolding are viewed together, it is often suggested that our civilization is...
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