My Name is Earth synopsis

Many believe that humans have always overexploited nature, that the tendency has been hardwired by natural selection into our species. By this reckoning, today’s environmental crisis is the product of there being many more of us than before and our having access to more advanced technology. But where is the evidence? Going back to the […]

Trees of Knowledge

My first experience of rainforest was in the Congo Basin of Central Africa in 1977. Walking along the ground trails, it seemed a dark and rather gloomy habitat by comparison with the sunlit savannas and open woodlands that I was familiar with. There was not much going on, at least not to my untutored eye, […]