Essays
Clinton can still win the election
Hope springs eternal. Then it's dead.
Ansel Adams Wilderness Trip Autumn 2016
In the past eleven months we have seen the Paris Agreement (United Nations...
Framework Convention on Climate Change
Adoption of the Paris Agreement December 12, 2015 In combating climate change, the...
Ethnic Cleansing Goes Mainstream: Donald Trump and Our Christmas Wish
I recall a movie from the Cold War days. A device was discovered that had...
November 10 Evening Nature Discussion Group
Third and Fourth in a series of Setonian Evenings 6:30 - 8:00 pm at the Seton...
Passages
Lakeside dispatch from David L. Witt/August 2, 2015 {In late July and early August...
Measurements of Scale
Lakeside dispatch from David L. Witt/August 1, 2015 {In late July and early August...
Observations on a Place of Contrasts
Lakeside dispatch from David L. Witt/July 27, 2015/3:00pm {In late July and early...
Understanding Consequences of the Unpredictable
I subtitled my book on generally true patterns “A New Natural History of...
Zakaria, Gates and CNN’s GPS (Global Phooey Square)
In a surprisingly insensitive and insincere interview aired by CNN on May 17,...
Sage-Grouse and National Defense Budget
The PBS Nature series aired a program on the endangered Sage-grouse on May 20. The...
Earth Day – Day of Mourning Not Celebration
The annual Day of Mourning occurs on Wednesday April 22 this year. I recall the...
Generally True Patterns: A New Natural History Of Recognizing Ourselves As A Part Of Nature
I have just published a book based on my observations from and about nature. The...
Five Down and One To Go, where is Country Joe…
…when we need him prior to the Sixth Extinction? And it's one, two, three, What...
Brian Williams and the Fall of Civilization
A celebrity news reader has been accused of misrepresenting a trivial...
Dangerous Sleeper Cell Suspected in Washington, D. C .
During the 19th century, following the age of sail, the British Navy made the...
This Changes Everything – But Will It Matter?
Socialist economist Naomi Klein speaks truth to power once more in her recent book,...
Je Suis Charlie: Social Justice, and Warning for Corpocracy?
Should the internationally destructive corporations and the politicians they own...
A Very Pretty Nature Essay. But Now What? Winter Solstice Thoughts
Writer George Monbiot has posted to the BBC one of the most beautiful web...
The Call of Cthulhu to Ayn Rand
In his 1901 book Lives of the Hunted, Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946) gave the...
The Parable of Admiral Yamamoto’s Suicide for the Age of Carbon Addiction
By the time of his death by from U.S. warplanes on April 18, 1943, Isoroku...
Bill Cosby and Jimmy Kimmel Foreshadow the End of Civilization Through the Culture of Humiliation
I should be used to it by now, but I remain irritated by news media attention...
John Muir Skewered at Institute of Environment and Sustainability as Neoliberalism Chalks Up Another Victory
Los Angeles Times reporter Louis Sahagun posted at article dated November 13,...
Global Warming Claims Another Victim: Mt. Everest
If the elevation of a mountain is determined by measuring from sea level, and then...