Problems, Predicaments, and Technology

  Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Ludington Pumped Hydro Project with Lake Michigan in background

  Farm near Douthat State Park, Virginia

Round Barn in Indiana

  Picnic Area at Lake Powhatan, North Carolina

  Viking Mountain Overlook, Tennessee

  Looking into the distance at Cloudland Canyon State Park

  Buchanan, Virginia

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

The beach at Glimmerglass State Park in New York

The view from Sunset Rock near Sparta, Tennessee

  Coxhall Gardens, Carmel, Indiana

  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 ble...

  Inspiration Point is at the top of this cliff in southern Illinois

  Lake Powhatan Swimming Beach, North Carolina

The walkway down to Otsego Lake at Fairy Springs Park outside of Cooperstown, New York

  Lake Jocassee, South Carolina

  Wolf Creek Dam , Kentucky

  Seeing the forest through the trees can be difficult; this is the Section Eight Woods in the Cache River Wetlands in Southern Illinois

  Fog on the reservoir at R.B. Winter State Park in Pennsylvania