Garry Rogers

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2809 )

• Post 5: Ignorance of Innocence, Evidence from the Desert

  

  Theories can be dismissed. Long-term data cannot. In 1974, a fire burned through the vegetation along Dead Man Wash in the Sonoran Desert uplands north of... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2026 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Post 9: Ignorance of Innocence, Plain Member and Citizen

  Aldo Leopold wrote in 1949 that we abuse land because we see it as commodity. When we see it as our community to which we belong, we tend to use it with more... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2026 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Post 8: Ignorance of Innocence, Three Principles of Maturation

  Three principles define the shift from adolescence to maturity, from destroyer to steward. Ecocentricity means rejecting the view that nature exists for human... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2026 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Post 7: Ignorance of Innocence, Cognitive Adaptation

  Humans possess something no other species has: the capacity to think about our own thinking. We can identify our biases and design systems to counteract them. Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2026 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Post 6: Ignorance of Innocence, Suffering as Teacher

  We refused to mature through foresight. Now we must mature through catastrophe. This is not punishment. It is pedagogy. The floods, fires, famines, and... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2026 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• The Danger of “Reticence on Steroids”

  In a candid December 2025 appearance on the program Climate Chat, climatologist James Hansen spoke plainly regarding the state of global climate communication. Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2026 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Post 4: The Thermodynamic Reality

  Industrial civilization runs on a one-time inheritance. Fossil fuels represent millions of years of accumulated sunlight, compressed and concentrated by... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2026 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Post 3: Pathological Industrial Adolescence

  The adolescent brain possesses adult capacities for reasoning and manipulation but lacks mature judgment. The adolescent believes themselves invincible,... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2026 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Post 2: The Human Paradox

  Bacteria detect chemical gradients and remember previous exposures. Plants learn from experience and communicate through fungal networks. Crows fashion tools an... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2026 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Field Guide to the Anthropocene

  Watching the natural world change can be deeply saddening. Many of us feel a sense of grief or anxiety about the loss of species, the changing seasons, and the... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2025 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• The Biosphere Integrity Metric (BIM)

  How healthy is our planet’s life support system? Shockingly, we lack a clear, real-time indicator. Current measures often tell us about extinctions after they... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2025 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• The Refugia Playbook – A Strategy for Local Resilience

  Our planet’s life support systems are failing, and we cannot fully restore what is being lost. But hope is not gone. We can focus on protecting refugia:... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2025 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Announcing a New Climate Fiction Novel: The Maplewood Journals

  

  I am pleased to announce the release of The Maplewood Journals. The story chronicles a community’s fight for survival in a world being reshaped by... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2025 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Introducing “Biosphere Collapse: Causes and Solutions”

  

  Our planet’s life-support system is in trouble. For centuries, we have treated the biosphere as an infinite resource. We have used its soils, forests, and... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2025 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• 6: The Final Adaptation — Evolving Our Minds for a Wounded Planet

  

  (This article is the last of a six-post reality-check. Concepts and examples are drawn from “Silent Earth: Adaptations for Life in a Devastated Biosphere. Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2025 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• 5: Solastalgia and Ecological Grief – The Inner Landscape of a Changing Planet

  

  (This article is part of a six-post reality-check. Concepts and examples are drawn from “Silent Earth: Adaptations for Life in a Devastated Biosphere. Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2025 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• 5: The Human Paradox — Our Place in the Cognitive Web

  

  Cognition is everywhere in all creatures. But what about us? Human cognition is an extraordinary elaboration of the capacities found throughout the biosphere. Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2025 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• 4: Preserving the Blueprint – The Urgent Mission to Save Knowledge

  

  (This article is part of a six-post reality-check. Concepts and examples are drawn from “Silent Earth: Adaptations for Life in a Devastated Biosphere.”) In time... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2025 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• 4: The Value of Thought — How a Thinking Planet Creates a Stable World

  

  (This article is part of a series, The Thinking Planet, exploring the universal nature of cognition in the living world. Concepts and examples are drawn from... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2025 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• 3: Rights of Nature – Should Rivers Have a Lawyer?

  

  (This article is part of a six-post reality-check. Concepts and examples are drawn from “Silent Earth: Adaptations for Life in a Devastated Biosphere.”) When a... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2025 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT