Tag Archives: Thomas Berry

Overshooting the Human Project

Posted on April 22, 2022 by Roger Gosden

The first astronauts described Earth with mystical awe as a vulnerable pearl in the barren wastes of space. It had looked the same since before the rise of mammals in the Cenozoic epoch, but suddenly our dirty footprints are all … Continue reading →

Posted in Environment, Nature | Tagged Age of Anxiety, Brundtland Report, carrying capacity, Georg Borgstrom, logistic curve, Thomas Berry, William Catton | Comments Off

Chimps Head for Retirement

Posted on December 1, 2015 by Roger Gosden

In 1871, the now-extinct Hornet magazine published a cartoon of Charles Darwin looking like a human-ape chimera. It was not meant kindly. We might suppose that progressive Victorian thinkers would have embraced chimps, gorillas, orangs, etc. as newly-found cousins. Perhaps … Continue reading →