🚀 go-pugleaf

Today I got the last e-mail newsletter from the science
writer David Darling (regular readers will remember him as the
one who posted my UV science paper on his site.)
It is an eloquent appeal for our environment, our world, and our home.
Here it is:

Issue #40

August 9, 2006

e-mail: daviddarling@daviddarling.info

website: http://www.daviddarling.info



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Dear Friends,



This will be the last newsletter I'll be sending out. The increasing
number of people using my website, and especially the two encyclopedias
it supports - The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy, and
Spaceflight and The Encyclopedia of Alternative Energy and Sustainable
Living - mean that I have my work cut out just maintaining and updating
these resources. I'm especially committed to making available, in
easily digestible form, more information on how we can live in greater
harmony with the Earth, through conservation and sustainability.



It's a cliche to say that we living in changing times. In fact, we live
in planet-changing times. There's no longer room for doubt that Homo
sapiens - we self-styled "wise men" - are radically altering our
environment and threatening the global life-support system on which we
and other species depend. We are, all the signs suggest, into the last
century of what might be called "business as usual." By 2100 many of
our fellow species will be extinct, following in the recent path of the
northern black rhino. Global warming and concomittant sea-level rises
will be undeniable even to those whose positions and careers have been
bankrolled by the oil industry. While we continue to bomb each other
and indulge in the futile, age-old occupation of tribalism, the
terrestrial ecosystem is being ravaged, the future of our children's
children obliterated. At a time when we most need a united-planet
vision, we seem to be fragmenting ever further on nationalistic,
sectarian, political, and religious grounds.



I'm not by nature a pessimist. I happen to believe that humans are a
part of, rather than apart from, the Gaian ecosystem. But I've felt the
need for some time now to put more effort into doing what I can to help
support the green movement. The best way I can do this, I believe, is
to devote my time to enhancing the information I provide on my website
on our place in the cosmos, the precious nature of all life, and
practical ways to achieve a sustainable future.



I wish you and yours all the best and hope that you'll bookmark my site
or any aspects of it that you find useful.



Front page: http://www.daviddarling.info



Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy, and Spaceflight:
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/ETEmain.html



Encyclopedia of Alternative Energy and Sustainable Living:
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/AEmain.html



Peace,



David Darling