Serendipities Of A Writer's Life

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Why The Greater Depression Still Lies Ahead
By Michael Pento
July 01, 2010 “Forbes” — If policymakers do not understand the real cause of a problem, they will in [...]

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Here’s a shocking report on AFP that speaks for itself.:

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Oceans’ Fish Could Disappear in 40 Years: UN
By AFP
May 17, 2010 “AFP” — NEW YORK (AFP) – The world faces [...]

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Here’s a headline and news story that caught my attention – it was published in the Daily Telegraph newspaper, which is not usaually a source of alarmist environmental doom.   The story speaks for itself.  The notion that so much life on earth might be wiped so that humans can do whatever we want surely puts [...]

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I’ve spent many hours over the past winter away from the boat studying the impending energy crisis.  Is “peak oil” real?  What might be the effect if oil production cannot be increased while world demand grows at 3% per year?
And I’ve come to the conclusion that no alternative sources of energy are anywhere close to being [...]

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This book is one of the classic must-read books for any aspiring writer and it is one I have enjoyed reading and rereading over many years.  Dorothea Brande wrote her ground-breaking book in the 1930s.  Style of writing have changed enormously since then.  But what it takes to become a writer has not.  From my [...]

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If you read this quote from Eugene V. Debs you may 9or may not) agree that is a sorry commentary on America today.
Then look when the words were spoken.

” It is extremely dangerous to exercise the constitutional right of free speech in a country fighting to make democracy safe in the world…..

These are [...]

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My thanks to Vijay Srinivas, a journalist in Delhi, for sending me this update:
‘Rs 33k cr needed to clean India’s rivers’
Times New Service, Mar 18, 2010
NEW DELHI: Diehard devotees may not believe this. But it’s true that the water of the holiest among holy rivers — the Ganga — fails to [...]

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It’s with considerable relief that I’ve received comments on my recent post Goodbye mother Ganges.  I long delayed even publishing the post because to some, who had seen a draft, it seemed unnecessarily pessimistic.  Who wants to hear a foreigner being critical of India’s headlong rush to consumerism?  However, in the end, I decided it [...]

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I certainly wasn’t the first to write a book about Ganga Ma (Mother Ganges), the holy river which flows across northern India.  And I’m glad to see that I haven’t been the last. (Though I think I’m still the only foreigner to have walked the entire length of the river.)
Edmund Hilary took a jet boat [...]

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Unless more rain falls, India’s ambition of becoming a vast consumer society is an impossible dream from which the vast majority will be excluded because of water shortages.

In the headlong rush to become consumers, few people inside India or outside are asking whether it is even possible for more than one billion people to [...]

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