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<p>Glad you found "Starship", I would have recommended it as
"preparation reading" to experience the PNW and in particular BC
well. I particularly was taken with his experiences in the
traditional Baidarka he crafted (reverse engineered?) including
hitching a ride on a barge of cattle being towed to AK by a
Colorado Rancher who was already fleeing the lower 48 for the
relative independence he believed he could find in AK. <br>
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<p> I understand George's latest book to have a lot of references to
those experiences woven into the more technological elements. I
haven't read any of it yet, but get the impression that it picks
up somewhat where his "Darwin Among the Machines" left off.<br>
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<p>Merle -</p>
<p>For better or worse, it appears that Nature is reclaiming Glen
Canyon one way or the other with the droughts... <br>
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<p>I have not fully processed it yet, but James Lovelock's recent
passing at 103 has lead me to revisit my apprehension of "<a
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href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis">Gaia</a>"
in a way that I was unprepared to do when it was first being
popularized. At the time I reacted (as many did) more to the
popularization style that others added to it than perhaps to the
fundamentals that he and Margulis brought forward.</p>
<p>In preparation for your (Merle) "summit" in Stockholm in 2019, I
encountered the "<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medea_hypothesis">Medea
Hypothesis</a>" for the first time and found them to be an
interesting complementary pair of perspectives.<br>
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books, Jochen. It was written by Kenneth Brower, David
Brower's son. For those of you in a different generation,
David was one of the founders of the environmental movement in
the 70's and founded many organizations, including Friends of
the Earth. However, he made one fatal mistake in his career.
He had the authority to help make the decision to trade Glen
Canyon for Dinosaur National Park (never having visited Glen
Canyon). I knew David well, and he never got over what he had
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<div dir="auto">In a small shop in Tofino on Vancouver
Island I spotted a nice book named "The Starship and the
Canoe" about George Dyson and his father. Apparently
George lived for a long time in a tree house in British
Columbia while his father was thinking about building
atomic rockets that could reach Mars. Interesting book.</div>
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