Problems, Predicaments, and Technology

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore , Michigan

  Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

  Cabwaylingo State Forest , West Virginia

People enjoying the shoreline at Sleeping Bear Dunes , Michigan

  Mash Fork Falls, Camp Creek State Park, West Virginia

Fog rising over a farm field in Virginia

  The Blue Ridge Discovery Center  in Konnarock, Virginia I read many articles every month, which allows me to detect certain patterns within these articles. (I am working on slowing down on the number.) A large percentage of most of them contain so much bargaining and hopium that a reader who understands the predicaments we face can only laugh or cry at them. I try to glean what I can from them and ignore the parts of denial of reality and optimism bias , but some articles are so full of crap it's just not funny. Here's a prime example of what I'm talking about (although I often list these types of articles and have even written entire articles based upon them, named appropriately, Fantasies, Myths, and Fairy Tales ). That article (the prime example) lists an issue caused by several different symptom predicaments of ecological overshoot , namely, pollution loading , climate change, and ocean acidification (also a symptom of climate change).  Now, to be sure, the bleac

Trail at Beartree Recreation Area in Virginia

  Picture of Table Rock Mountain in South Carolina taken from Bald Ridge Heritage Preserve

Lake Jocassee as seen from the boat ramp at Devils Fork State Park in South Carolina

  Lake Jocassee, South Carolina

  An early morning picture at Black Rock Mountain State Park in Georgia

  Popcorn Overlook, Lake Burton, Georgia

  Gum Gap Overlook, Grandview, Tennessee