Towheeblog

Higher seas, more wildlife contagions, more CO2 into the atmosphere.  Have we evolved behaviors that will cause us to self-destruct as a species?

• California has sick and dying Brown Pelicans. 
• In my book on San Francisco’s Natural History I looked ahead at some of the likely changes brought by climate change.  Now you can watch an animation that lets you see what happens to your favorite coastal area. South of Market goes under water.  Back east Florida becomes a narrow neck of land.  Sea level rise with climate change…watch it happen on this website, Earthtime. 
• American cities losing their trees because of streets, parking lots and construction, i.e. capitalism,  not conservation.
• The wealth gap only worsens and that leaves many alienated and embittered, and the rich even more entitled.  Move those Maasai, make room for the rich tourists.

Click here for the homepage about my book, San Francisco’s Natural History:  Sand Dunes to Streetcars.