tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3560838335414244511.post972301687774231722..comments2024-03-28T15:50:29.884-05:00Comments on The Nature of Things: This week in birds - #183Dorothy Bordershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12441731296027227394noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3560838335414244511.post-84483248440521076942015-11-22T13:53:21.236-06:002015-11-22T13:53:21.236-06:00Thanks for the tip on The Sixth Extinction. Here i...Thanks for the tip on The Sixth Extinction. Here is a good overview of what certain people hope for at the Paris Conference. http://www.themorningnews.org/article/save-the-humansJudy Kruegerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11632346091869688862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3560838335414244511.post-72811116704262975892015-11-22T12:48:36.982-06:002015-11-22T12:48:36.982-06:00Let's hope the conference is able to achieve s...Let's hope the conference is able to achieve something constructive. Of the books you mentioned, I loved <i>Flight Behavior</i>, as I love most of what Kingsolver writes. I would add that <i>The Sixth Extinction</i> by Elizabeth Kolbert was very informative and gave me a lot to think about.<br /><br /> Dorothy Bordershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12441731296027227394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3560838335414244511.post-50796372492750881472015-11-22T11:31:05.149-06:002015-11-22T11:31:05.149-06:00Thoughts on your post this morning: Barbara Kingso...Thoughts on your post this morning: Barbara Kingsolver and her novels about the sixth extinction--Prodigal Summer (coyotes) and Flight Behavior (butterflies). Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, a book I will not ever probably read but one that kept coming up in my morning internet survey and that is apparently a grim look at the destruction wreaked by our belief in "progress." I am currently putting my money on the Paris Climate Change Conference at the end of this month.Judy Kruegerhttp://keepthewisdom.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3560838335414244511.post-68361415695642523692015-11-21T14:43:40.506-06:002015-11-21T14:43:40.506-06:00Ultimately, we could be the agents of our own exti...Ultimately, we could be the agents of our own extinction. Nature and the planet will survive. We might not.Dorothy Bordershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12441731296027227394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3560838335414244511.post-26241004898865569162015-11-21T14:07:26.352-06:002015-11-21T14:07:26.352-06:00If we are part of the sixth extinction, it doesn&#...If we are part of the sixth extinction, it doesn't bode well for us considering most of the animal and flora of the five previous eras were wiped out.Carmenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10242364668293349799noreply@blogger.com