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NPS Threatens endangered tule elk at point reyes: an exploration of sides and solutions

To advocate the culling of an endangered species isn’t just contrary to everything the National Park Service stands for; it’s contrary to what humans, as part of a vanishing world, should be ultimately working towards.

Blaming the right beast: why the pandemic is humanity's fault

Spillover was published in 2012, and its predictions were eerily accurate. Tracing the zoonotic episodes of Nipah, Ebola, Marburg, and even AIDS, among other diseases, Spillover pounded the evidence into one clear, bold, daunting statement: we will have another pandemic. And it will be because of us.

CLIMATE CHANGE: WHAT WE NEED IS SHAME

If you think life is important, you should be taking action against climate change. If you are remotely a good person, you should be trying to change your ways. If you don’t care, at least pretend. The earth begs you to.

Nature is my religion

Sitting cross-legged at the summit of a mountain in the Andes, I felt the closest to enlightenment I could ever be-- I felt like something akin to the Buddha. Holding a snake in the palm of my hand was my baptism.

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a love letter to peru

There is one moment when we are all quiet, marveling at the snake, feeling blessed to be in the same space as it, surrounded by the jungle and the Amazon River, wrapped in the Amazonian night.

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California: poems for the fires

I slipped through the hips

of the trees, the trees slipped their way

into me. For hours I sat in the pit

of two branches, containing myself.

Not knowing how to begin

COVID-19 offers a chance to revitalize the planet- or destroy it

The impacts of one crisis can’t be allowed to cascade into and magnify another. Solving the coronavirus pandemic with hasty, short-term measures will only aggravate the effects of a longer, less noticeable, but just as notable crisis.

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