Since the Earth is finite, and we will have to stop expanding sometime, should we do it before or after nature's diversity is gone?

Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not distort, delay, or sequester information

How do we appreciate the good without letting it be the enemy of the perfect? How do we keep a step in the right direction from becoming a stopping point? How do we get beyond shades of insipid light green?

The actions of my government are not bearable. They devastate our natural resources and deprive our people. The politicians speak piously while practicing greed and divisiveness; they care nothing for the nation. I want to do more than withdraw my support. I want to tar and feather them.

Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone.

Models can easily become so complex that they are impenetrable, unexaminable, and virtually unalterable.

The climate continues to deteriorate.