This comic is a mash-up of ideas gathered from two recent books I've been thinking about. The first is Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction, which chronicles the demise of a number of species which humans have driven to extinction and argues that we find ourselves in the midst of what will someday go down in history as the sixth mass extinction to occur on Earth. The second … [Read more...]
regrets
return
remember
Remember strip mining, effluent, clear cutting, Caspian tigers, dodo birds, polar bears, passenger pigeons, and so many more... … [Read more...]
last
transcript last panel 1. granddaughter: "Tell me again, grandpa!" grandfather: "OK, sweetie." panel 2. grandfather: "It would start off with just a few, drifting down. And if one of them fell on your cheek, it was like being kissed by an angel." panel 3. grandfather: "Sometimes it would come down so fast, it would cover the door and the drive four feet high!" panel 4. … [Read more...]