global warming
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I Remember Venice…
I remember Venice and the stucco homes along the canals. I remember coastlines of soft sand and people arrayed along them as far as could be seen; a warm summer day was a beach day. The weather could be comfortable even in August, and when I was a child water, drinking water, flowed freely over…
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An Appeal
We are standing on the edge of a rapidly eroding sea-cliff. Battered by pounding waves it crashes into the ocean piece by piece, chunk by chunk. The danger of us falling into the churning water is there but it dimly registers in our minds…we think “all we need to do is take a step back”…
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Earth Day 2014
Earth Day 2014. While we imagine that we live on a vast world with unlimited resources, we have to remember that this is not the case. In the 4.3 billion years that our planet has been orbiting the sun, we have gone from single-celled organisms that ate sunshine, to sending our technology into space so…
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Getting Warmer
“It’s been hot lately, the weather reports coming out of the San Francisco desert are surprising. 137 in the day, 24 degrees or lower at night! Old Evans said that the concrete shafts of the Trans-America pyramid are starting to expand and contract so much that you can hear cracking off in the Oakland shelters.”…
The Numinous Cosmos 