The Bitch is Back
Seattlest went to one of those liberal-arts, don't-know-your-grades, frisbee-throwing, dialetical-discoursing, call-your-professor-by-their-first-name NW colleges. No, not that one, the other one. What do you think we are, some kind of shade-grown coffee-drinking hippie? Kee-rist.
OK, so we may have joined some environmental organizations in high school and college, and we may be pretty much on the side of protecting natural resources and land before some people rape and pillage them permanently. But that doesn't mean we ever really bought the whole "just love Mother Nature and let things run their natural course" bit, either. That's why we're looking forward to reading Lee Silver's new book Challenging Nature, in which the resident Princeton renaissance-scientist eloquently sticks it to both the far right and the drum-circle left regarding dear sweet Gaia: like moms of the olden days, that bitch has a mean backhand.
You can read a short except at TheScientist online, which pulled this beauty of a snippet:
...everyone knows about Ice Ages of the past, which are no more dramatic than a green Sahara. The distinction seems to be that the Sahara's past reveals a truth modern people don't want to hear: Mother Nature can be a nasty bitch.
