Canaries In The Snow

We all know the story of canaries in the mines…

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Dreadful Dawn

Imagine what would happen if global warming becomes the greatest contributor to global warming. How could this happen? Add this to my apocalyptic series.

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Global Warming

Global shippers are changing the way they view the world. Isn't it time our leaders change their thinking?

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Gods And Madness

A friend, C.J. Stevens, reminded me of an old saw about gods and madness.

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It's Sixty-five Million Years This Fall

And one species has conquered all.

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Kilimanjaro’s Next Indignity

The inspiration for this poem comes from The New York Times Editorial page of Nov 17, 2003, an article by Oliver Morton.  

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Let Them Eat Mud

“It’s salty and it has butter and you don’t know you’re eating dirt,” said Olwich Louis Jeune, 24, who has taken to eating them more often in recent months. “It makes your stomach quiet down.”

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Noah’s Ark, Again

Seeding our future

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Repeal Darwin

As humanity faces impending famines, there are remedies available. Repealing Darwin is not one of them.

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Salmon Gone
The shrinking dream.

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Salvation

Ideas to "Save the world" haven't worked. It seems we are more vulnerable than ever.

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Surplus Billions

To paraphrase Senator Everett Dirksen, a billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you’re into some serious overpopulation.

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Sweet and Sour

Victims of our success.

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The Dead Zone

A National Geographic documentary inspired this response.

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The Half-Folk

Before we were whole, we were two halves.

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What Happened to Liberty's Lady?

Finite resources divided by a larger and larger population yields a smaller and smaller standard of living for each citizen.

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© 2008 R. Leland Waldrip