Welcome...
... to my home on the Web. I'm an environmental writer with a focus on fundamental but generally unrecognized ecological issues.
Headlines distract us with other concerns, but there is no question our destructive impact on the web of life, more than any other event or issue, will be civilization's legacy. Confronting this reality is today our greatest challenge.
If we hope to mitigate the ongoing environmental cataclysm, we must face squarely such topics as the the sixth mass extinction of species in Earth's history and the closely related size and growth of the human population. Climate change is of course just one symptom.
Looking more deeply, it is time we confronted the unsustainability of civilization itself. Converging, linked ecological and economic issues as immediate as peak oil and as fundamental as the inherent destructiveness of agriculture point to an end to civilization coming sooner than most of us might imagine. The growing rewilding movement offers a positive vision for the long term human future.
Here you can see a snapshot of my efforts to bring light to these topics. See the blog for recent thoughts and updates.
Thanks for stopping by!
-- John Feeney
It is essential to see the profound peril in continued flagrant misperception of the very nature of the human situation. -- William R. Catton, Jr.
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Image sources: Darren Shaw, Puddlepuff, and David Craig, on flickr.com, creative commons license