America’s two-century search for a more perfect power
fairfield osborn
Our Plundered Planet and Ecoapocaltyptophilia
Fairfield Osborn’s Our Plundered Planet is a scathing critique of humans relationship with Nature written in 1947. It strikes me as remarkably in-tune with early-21st century ecoapocalyptophilia.
Osborn beat the rest of us to talking about the world’s new human-centered geological era by a good four decades. The third chapter of his book is titled, “The [...]
11th Hour Deja Vu
Sometimes, like say when you’re watching the Leonardo DiCaprio/worldsaving vehicle 11th Hour, you might get the feeling that no one really saw global energy problems and ecological disasters coming. Like everyone in the 1940s was just wearing a fedora, talking like Humphrey Bogart, and happily eating coal for breakfast.
But it didn’t happen like that. There [...]
Inventing Green by Alexis Madrigal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
