George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman

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?

The European nations take climate change very seriously.

Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park

We can't control systems or figure them out. But we can dance with them!

It is not OK in this culture to talk to friends about causes you believe in, much less to ask them to join in. It's OK to blast perfect strangers with crass messages every hour of the day, but it's a tinge embarrassing, it brings up some shyness, it seems an intrusion, it risks rejection to share real heartfelt commitments. It's easier to share our cynicism with strangers than our dreams with friends.

Any system, biological, economic, or social, that gets so encrusted that it cannot self-evolve, a system that systematically scorns experimentation and wipes out the raw material of innovation, is doomed over the long term on this highly variable planet.