They got Charles Darwin trapped out there on Highway Five
Judge says to the High Sheriff,
“I want him dead or alive
Either one, I don’t care”
High water everywhere
My news intake has shrunk in the last few years. I once considered closely following the news as part of how I made a living, and, so I was told, to be any sort of citizen you were supposed to pay some sort of attention to events. I guess I was raised wrong.
I’ve cut my consumption way back if for no other reason it’s hard to be a citizen these days, certainly if you’re reading/watching the established corporate news, it’s simply impossible. Hell, it makes you think they don’t want citizens.
The exception is I still read a fair amount of financial news, mostly the FT and Wall Street Journal. I’m not sure why. One thing about reading the business news, call it the record of actions taken by and thinking of global corporations, it’s pretty clear we’re way, way far away from moving in the right direction in regards to seeking to address the great environmental mess created by industrialization or moving in other directions.
A reader left an astute comment yesterday to what a lot of younger people must be feeling. All I can reply is for someone who has spent a lifetime following, concerned, and acting to the limited degree possible on environmental matters, nature is amazingly resilient — it’s never over till it’s over.
The other news sources I read somewhat regularly are the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Sun Times, old school newspapers without much of long horizon. The LAT has a great article about pods of Orcas (killer whales) attacking yachts off the Iberian coast. Now, there’s some right thinking and right acting green politics.
It reminded me a few years back passing a train trestle in Tsavo, Kenya. A century before, a couple of maneless male lions took-out a number of workers building it. Made you want to think the lions knew what was coming with that bridge.
At this point, without our changing our ways, many animals and plants are pretty much in for it. But again, nature’s amazingly resilient. Only one species’ future is at the center of all green politics - Homo sapiens.
Ha ha..I think i was the one who left the "astute comment" from an earlier substack I ended up deleting for reasons I forget..