Cruel to Be Kind
1/30/25 - rewilding New Zealand

Hello everyone:
The writing will take you to New Zealand this week, but I’ll start the journey with a few paragraphs about the cruel chaos coming out of D.C.. For those of you who want a break from all that, skip down past the picture of harried sheep. For those of you who wish I was focusing more on the anti-environmental bloodsport of the Trump administration, I’ll get there. That reality is an ultramarathon, not a sprint, and I do try to keep something of a global perspective here.
As always, please remember to scroll past the end of the essay to read this week’s curated Anthropocene news.
Now on to the writing:


