We should pause to reflect on the world-wide resonance of the story of Inky, a beautiful and indefatigable octopus who knew all drains lead to the sea. We all know, at the most base level, that any enclosure – be it barren or resplendent — is captivity. And must be…
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The Week In Wildlife, Guardian (13)
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The Danger of a Runaway Antarctica “Now comes another scary prediction: If carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels continue unabated, the vast West Antarctic ice sheet could begin to disintegrate, causing the sea to rise by five to six feet by the end of the century, destroying coastal cities and…
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Easter remains the most pagan of all the Christian holidays, unable to fully detach the foundation story of death/rebirth from the natural symbols which mark the Spring: the Hare, the Egg, the Lamb, the Lily. The Stone, rolled away. Western religious traditions have tried mightily to center the human as…
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SeaWorld Says It Will End Breeding of Killer Whales “The company has 29 orcas: 11 in San Diego; seven in Orlando, Fla.; five in San Antonio; and six in Loro Parque, on Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands. It does not plan to release the killer whales into the…
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The United Fruit Company Pablo Neruda When the trumpet sounded, it was all prepared on the earth, the Jehovah parcelled out the earth to Coca Cola, Inc., Anaconda, Ford Motors, and other entities: The Fruit Company, Inc. reserved for itself the most succulent, the central coast of my own land,…
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In ‘Half Earth,’ E.O. Wilson Calls for a Grand Retreat “And what I say is that to save biodiversity, we need to set aside about half the earth’s surface as a natural reserve. I’m not suggesting we have one hemisphere for humans and the other for the rest of life.…
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Wrong Turn: Biologist Rupert Sheldrake On How Science Lost Its Way, The Sun “This is a core question: How do things take their forms? Whether we’re talking about a plant, an animal, an atom, or a galaxy, they all seem to organize themselves spontaneously. Unlike machines, which are assembled by…
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