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Author: William Green

Maybe Living at Home Wasn’t so Bad

November 26, 2018 William Green

“Yet all these upheavals are dwarfed by the most momentous social revolution that ever befell humankind: the collapse of the…

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Posted in: Week 14: Harari (Part 3)

You Say You Want a Revolution

November 12, 2018 William Green 2 Comments

“But gene editing, which would result in sterile mosquitoes, could help save the birds without destroying their surroundings. “Using genetics…

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Posted in: Week 12: Gould, Specter, Harris

Dawin and the theory of Slow Cooking.

November 5, 2018 William Green

Though Darwin lays out a number of explanations, he is the first to point out there are many gaps in…

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Posted in: Week 11: Darwin

Anthropozoic Graffiti

October 29, 2018 William Green 1 Comment

“Many stratigraphers have come to believe that we are such an event–that human beings have so altered the planet in…

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Posted in: Week 10: Climate Science (Steffen)

Reidy or not, its time for change

October 22, 2018 William Green 4 Comments

This question should be looked at in the context of the information we have accumulated over this semester.  The impression…

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Posted in: Week 09: Climate Science (Reidy)

But you said……

October 15, 2018 William Green

In Lecain’s two case studies, his critique of the transformational, relocational and delaying technological fixes revolves around the law of…

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Posted in: Week 08: Superfund (Part 2)

Where there’s a will, there’s a superfund site.

October 8, 2018 William Green

If man has shown nothing else, it is his willingness and ingenuity in invention when exerting his will over nature.…

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Posted in: Week 07: Superfund (Part 1)

The Genetics of Power

October 1, 2018 William Green 1 Comment

Johnson was one of the great thinkers, a man capable of seeing the bigger picture, the pieces (politics, religion, science)…

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Posted in: Week 06: Johnson (Part 2)

It’s All Sunny Days and Nuclear Sunsets

September 23, 2018 William Green 1 Comment

Harari makes a convincing argument that ties science, economy, and empire into tightly weaved web in which one does not…

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Posted in: Week 05: Harari (Part 2) and Johnson (Part 1)

Time may Change me, but I can’t Change time (bowie)

September 17, 2018 William Green

Though it might be oversimplification, maybe even the Schoolhouse Rock version of modern civilization, it really all boils down to…

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Posted in: Week 04: Harari (Part 1)

Waiter…There’s a Human in my Soup!

September 10, 2018 William Green 1 Comment

“Technology can  thus be employed to buy us time during which we can attend to the fundamental, fascinating building block…

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Posted in: Week 03: Technological Fix

Whiskey is drinking, water is for fighting

September 3, 2018 William Green

The Bitterroot Valley is facing a number of environmental challenges as a result of historical decisions, current changes in the…

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Posted in: Week 02: Diamond (MT)

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