A ReEmergence. . .of Sorts

     So where have I been you might ask?  Or not!  Either way, it has been quite some time since I rambled about on the interconnected medium known as the "blog".  While I have thought recently that resuming my blog habits might be a good way to bolster my job search, profess my love and knowledge of all things "green" (well, not all of them), and just seem more hip in general, I have to admit that it was actually watching the movie "Julia and Julia" that pushed me inspired over the edge of procrastination.

     Yes, it's true...signing up for a cable TV subscription in order to watch my beloved Red Sox has resulted in a chivalrous compromise, bringing me ever closer to the world of "Chick Flicks".  And yet, being a closet Iron Chef, I found myself engaged in the movie long enough to resonate with the main character's dilemma. 

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Standing at the Crossroads of the End of Nature

     We live in a world of immense, almost unfathomable change: the changing of world economies, the hope of a political change in the United States, the changing views of racism and sexism, and perhaps the greatest change that the human civilization may witness, the change of our climate.  For many people, including myself, the latter of these changes represents a tipping point, of sorts.   No longer will I fly fish for native trout on a wild, mountainous stream without some sort of resonance from mankind's presence on this planet.  I may not see an empty bag of potato chips on the river bank, and would surely not come across a bike lock holding on the stream bottom, as seen in my backyard, urban creek, but nevertheless, I could not escape the air pollution from some distant factory nor the unusually warm temperatures of the air around me or the water at my feet.  

     The natural world, once mysterious, feared, and certainly separate from the everyday activities of humans, now faces an inseparable connection with a civilization, growing so fast and consuming so many resources, that it can change the atmospheric processes.  While the blossoms of spring will continue to bloom and the winter winds will continue to howl, this independence from man, that nature enjoyed for billions of years, now finds itself becoming extinct like the dinosaurs that roamed the planet millions of years before us.   Author Bill McKibben explores this disappearance of nature's interdependence from humans, the root of its causes, how this loss affects us, and what the future of a managed world might look like in his thought-provoking book, The End of Nature.