Reconsidering The War on Terror Late 2012
I have recently read several books and given serious thought to the threat of Islamic terrorism and the response to it by the US government, 11 years after the big attack of 9/11. Having formed some...
View ArticleRedeem New Mexico
"Restore New Mexico" is a multi-million $$ BLM program to "transition to healthy ecological states" on millions of acres of BLM land in NM. Basically they spray herbicide from airplanes to kill...
View Article1491
Pre-European ecosystems of North America are certainly of interest as data points in the time series of Holocene ecological change, but the conditions of 1491 are too often treated as sacred ideals to...
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THE ECOLOGICAL IDEAS OF ALAN SAVORY: A LITERATURE REVIEW
Report to Animas Foundation:THE ECOLOGICAL IDEAS OF ALAN SAVORY: A LITERATURE REVIEWPete SundtRangeland ConsultantApril 3,...
View ArticleSELF-INDULGENT MEMOIR 23: Interest (and lack of)
I have self-diagnosed my current malaise as "lack of interest." Let's unpack the concept "interest" to see where it leads.The dictionary has many definitions of the term, which fall into 2 general...
View ArticleSELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY DOES NOT EXPLAIN "HOW NATURE WORKS"
Per Bak's 1996 book "How Nature Works: the science of self-organized criticality" is a foundational work in the popularization of complexity, and is still widely read and cited over 20 years after its...
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A QUICK CRITIQUE OF CHARLES CURTIN, The Science of Open Spaces
A QUICK CRITIQUE OF CHARLES CURTIN, The Science of Open SpacesPete Sundt, May 14, 2016Charles Curtin's new book, The Science of Open Spaces, is described on its back cover as a "groundbreaking work...
View ArticleJUST WAR? A CRITIQUE OF JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN
I have just read the book "Just War Against Terror" by Jean Bethke Elshtain, the late philosopher of ethics and theology at Univ. Chicago. The book, written soon after 9/11, makes an ethical case for...
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