Problems, Predicaments, and Technology

Lake Michigan as seen from Consumers Energy Scenic Overlook, Ludington, Michigan

Scenes like this on the Cumberland River will become quite rare in about a decade. Live Now!

Cumberland River (Old Hickory Lake), Cages Bend, Tennessee

  Picnic Pavilion near Balsam, North Carolina

  Middle Fork Falls, Joyner, Tennessee

Fog rising over a farm field in Virginia

  Light at the end of the tunnel? Actually, this is Jacks Creek Covered Bridge  near Woolwine, Virginia

  The Ludington Pumped Storage Power Plant

  Mash Fork Falls, Camp Creek State Park, West Virginia

Little Glen Lake as seen from Little Glen Lake Picnic Area

Some selected images from Pike Lake State Park

I distinctly remember my first introduction to the initialism (or abbreviation or acronym) "NTHE" which ushered me into a whole new set of exploration. I was a member of a climate change group on Facebook at the time (which I had been a member of for quite some time) and I saw a post which was discussing it. I hadn't seen this abbreviation before and wondered what it meant, so I did a search and a whole list of links was presented (as usual) along with the spelled out version, Near Term Human Extinction. I clicked on one which took me to a website blog by Dave Pollard . I started reading and was introduced to another person, Carolyn Baker, with whom Dave had a video interview with. Through this video, I was introduced to another person, a professor by the name of Guy McPherson. A video of him presenting information at an Indiana university, DePauw, where my grandmother attended, was available; so I watched it. The information was stark and I noticed the looks on the ki...