Clik here to view.
We live in interesting times!
The impending ‘banquet of consequences’. The Welcome page of this blog includes this: Dogs ‘teaching’ man to be so successful a hunter enabled evolution, some 20,000 years later, to farming, thence...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Interconnections One.
The beat of a butterfly’s wings. From Wikipedia: The Butterfly Effect is a concept that small causes can have large effects. Initially, it was used with weather prediction but later the term became a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Interconnections Two
Continuing the stark assessment of where we are today. In yesterday’s post I covered the first five of the eleven facts about sea-level rise. Here are the rest of those facts. ooOOoo 11 alarming...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New growth required!
New trees offer a good metaphor! As regular followers of this place know (and a huge thank-you to you all) much of last Friday was spent planting trees in a grassy meadow just to the East of our house....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Smoke and Mirrors
Let me start with a quotation: I’m not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen. James Lovelock The author of that quote is fellow Englishman, albeit a tad older than yours...
View ArticleLateral thinking
In debt to Edward de Bono. One of the great differences between us humans and our beloved dogs is that frequently we think too much! But it’s worse than that. We think too much and get caught up in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Can we really avoid the ‘train crash’?
The idea that humanity will not prevent the approaching disaster is beyond belief! One of the results of all you great people signing up to follow Learning from Dogs is that it encourages me to share...
View ArticleThe disaster of empire?
The view of Alfred McCoy Despite Tom Engelhardt giving me permission years ago to republish his essays I rarely go down that path. Not because many of his essays aren’t deeply interesting but because...
View ArticleHow to walk your dog on a pet leash.
A guest post from Anoop Nain. From time to time I receive inquiries as to whether or not I publish guest posts. And if they are not trying to sell something then I am more than happy to do so. So here...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The End of Ice – A review
Background On January 21st this year I republished a post by Tom Engelhardt and called it The song this planet needs to hear. His post was essentially a piece written for Tom by Dahr Jamail. It was...
View Article
