Bayou Dularge, La (south of Houma) on Dave's Redfish expedition with Miguel Hebert in June, 2006

On Jul 10, 2006, at 11:24 AM, RHenry wrote:


Excerpted from The Log from the Sea of Cortez, Chapter 6.

We wonder whether in the present pattern the pieces are not straining to
fall out of line; whether the paradoxes of our times are not finally
mounting to a conclusion of ridiculousness that will make the whole
structure collapse. For the paradoxes are becoming so great that leaders
of people must be less and less intelligent to stand their own leadership.

-- John Steinbeck


Roger,

Thanks for that.
Have you seen this web site? www.seaofcortez.org


“Back to the Sea of Cortez:
Sailing with the Spirits of John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts
On a New Journey of Discovery Around Baja California

By Jon Christensen
Steinbeck Fellow
San Jose State University



In the spring of 1940, John Steinbeck and his friend, marine biologist Edward Ricketts, embarked on a voyage they had long dreamed of making together, and not a season too soon. As the storms of war engulfed Europe and the Far East threatening to bring the United States into World War II, they sailed on the Western Flyer, a sardine fishing boat, from Monterey Bay south around Baja California to the Sea of Cortez.”

[Now Dave’s two cents/sense]:

How often in our past do you think people have felt like things were going to hell (like Steinbeck 60-odd years ago)? I think it’s usually wise, and maybe inevitable, given human nature, that we’re looking ahead to the possible consequences to see if harm might be imminent. Thankfully, as Mark Twain said, “my life has been a series of catastrophes [or some similar word], most of which never happened.”

We clearly have more capacity for havoc than ever before, along with a surveillance system (including “One Whirled View”)[Roger & Dan's show on public access television] that tips us off about important goings on pretty damn quickly in just about any part of the planet. We do “live in interesting times.”

Along those lines, I’m educating myself in more depth about climate change. I know that you have been a proponent of the global cooling hypothesis. What is your perspective now? What, where, and who do you find to be the best sources of accurate and reasonable information on the subject?

Yo coozan,
Da Veed

Robert Wright, author of The Moral Animal (highly recommended), has a free, streaming-video collection of stimulating interviews. The link is on the left side of this page. I just finished watching the latest one with Edward O. Wilson, who is fascinating and down to earth. I watched it over several sessions, usually while eating a meal or snack. Each interview is about an hour long, but indexed by topic so you can hear only the parts that look promising to you. When I stopped after each feast, I wrote down the elapsed time on a post-it. I scrolled back to that place when I next came to nourish my body and soul.