Greetings from the Anthropocene

No one wants to hear this like news of an approaching tornado or an asteroid. Guess what we are the asteroid or more appropriately we are the virus that swept across the planet leaving nearly everything behind it dead including the virus itself!.

Here is 12 hrs reading for you all, don't say we didn't warn you!.

-Kevin Hester

Happy Earth Day, We're All Doomed!

By Steven Valentino : Producer, The Leonard Lopate Show

In the 1968 film Planet of the Apes, astronaut George Taylor realizes he is on earth when he encounters a half-sunken Statue of Liberty. (20th Century Fox/wikipedia)

The Lodown,

22 April, 2015

Happy Earth Day and greetings from the Anthropocene! It's an important moment to take stock of our air, water, land and charismatic megafauna. We've spent a lot of time talking about intractable environmental challenges on The Leonard Lopate Show. Here's a (totally incomplete) roundup of what's happening to our planet:

• Everything is Going Extinct
• Antarctica is Melting
• The Arctic is Melting
• The Frogs are Disappearing
• The Elephants are Disappearing
• The Monarch Butterflies are Disappearing
• The Bees are Disappearing
• The Moose are Disappearing
• The Bats are Disappearing
• The Starfish are “Disemboweling Themselves”
• The Crabs are Being Supersized
• The Jellyfish are Multiplying
• The Bananas are Going Extinct
• The Oranges Have a Mystery Virus
• The Dolphins Have a Mystery Virus
• The Fish are Full of Mercury
• The Songbirds and The Bats are Full of Mercury
• The Fisheries are Collapsing
• The Oceans are Acidifying
• Louisiana is Sinking 
• Fracking is Causing Problems in Texas 
• Fracking is Causing Problems in China 
• Tar Sands Mining 
• There's a Race to Gobble Up The Last Resources
• Palm Oil Farming Is Destroying Forests 
•  Invasive Species are Everywhere  
• Asian Carp Are Invading the Great Lakes 
• The Oceans are Filled with Garbage
• Space is Filled with Garbage
• The Produce is Filled with Pesticides  
• The Water is Filled with Pig Poop
• The Water is Filled with Microplastics 
• The Water is Filled with Lawn Chemicals 
• There is No Water
• Soon There Will Be 10 Billion of Us

Best of luck, everyone!