Thanks, as usual, Jason. Great stuff. As a former (recovering) print journalist, I'm finding myself drifting away from daily news, especially its political coverage: the blow-by-blow tribalism, the insider antics, the puffery. But having regularly read many newspapers for most of my life, I've found none that covers nature better than The Guardian (which I have in the past supported financially). Its biodiversity coverage is damned good for a newspaper. And as you probably know, its plain coverage of ecosystems is in a league of its own among newspapers. The Guardian has a butterfly correspondent, for example! In so many other newspapers, nature is relegated to afterthoughts or novelties, rather than its rightful, lofty place in the human experience. In any event, thanks again for your exhaustive work this week -- I know it takes time and brain power on your part. I'm grateful for it all.
Really happy to hear this confirmation of the great work being done at the Guardian. They really have a butterfly correspondent? That's amazing, and reminds me of Robin Wall Kimmerer's fantasy that someday we'll have a Fox News that reports on foxes.
Speaking of fantasies, do you think it's possible we'll ever revert back to a quieter news cycle? Hard to imagine, not least because AI doesn't sleep and already seems perfectly capable of writing the kind of shallow, conflict-driven, product-placing stuff that's already such a plague.
Great essay!. Just as warming is happening so fast we can see it in real time, Humanity's explorations of the treasure house of biological solutions to problems, (fine tuned by four billion years of trial and error experiments) is gathering momentum before our eyes.. I wrote about this recently in a story about heat and Humanity's study of how life has evolved elegant solutions to living in very hot environments.
We better learn from Nature, we're running out of time.
Thanks very much, Michael. Yes, there's definitely a tension between our momentum in the wrong direction and all the wonderful work being done to turn the ship. This sharp shift into hotter weather and all its consequences will, I hope, convince more of the skeptics and disinformation artists to hop on board.
As for the skeptics and disinfo artists..I don't hold out much hope. It's how they roll; what they do. Probably gives life meaning for them, to stir the pot. Or maybe they're just kind of stupid!
Thanks, as usual, Jason. Great stuff. As a former (recovering) print journalist, I'm finding myself drifting away from daily news, especially its political coverage: the blow-by-blow tribalism, the insider antics, the puffery. But having regularly read many newspapers for most of my life, I've found none that covers nature better than The Guardian (which I have in the past supported financially). Its biodiversity coverage is damned good for a newspaper. And as you probably know, its plain coverage of ecosystems is in a league of its own among newspapers. The Guardian has a butterfly correspondent, for example! In so many other newspapers, nature is relegated to afterthoughts or novelties, rather than its rightful, lofty place in the human experience. In any event, thanks again for your exhaustive work this week -- I know it takes time and brain power on your part. I'm grateful for it all.
Really happy to hear this confirmation of the great work being done at the Guardian. They really have a butterfly correspondent? That's amazing, and reminds me of Robin Wall Kimmerer's fantasy that someday we'll have a Fox News that reports on foxes.
Speaking of fantasies, do you think it's possible we'll ever revert back to a quieter news cycle? Hard to imagine, not least because AI doesn't sleep and already seems perfectly capable of writing the kind of shallow, conflict-driven, product-placing stuff that's already such a plague.
Great essay!. Just as warming is happening so fast we can see it in real time, Humanity's explorations of the treasure house of biological solutions to problems, (fine tuned by four billion years of trial and error experiments) is gathering momentum before our eyes.. I wrote about this recently in a story about heat and Humanity's study of how life has evolved elegant solutions to living in very hot environments.
We better learn from Nature, we're running out of time.
Thanks very much, Michael. Yes, there's definitely a tension between our momentum in the wrong direction and all the wonderful work being done to turn the ship. This sharp shift into hotter weather and all its consequences will, I hope, convince more of the skeptics and disinformation artists to hop on board.
As for the skeptics and disinfo artists..I don't hold out much hope. It's how they roll; what they do. Probably gives life meaning for them, to stir the pot. Or maybe they're just kind of stupid!
You're likely correct on this, Michael, but I like to practice optimism once in a while. Like any other muscle, it's either use it or lose it...