Disaster in Waiting
“We as a species must make a decision. How absurd that sounds. It sounds absurd because we’ve never made a decision as a species, and it seems implausible to think that we could.”
Atlas for the End of the World
Walter Murch on film editing
A Wild Life
Defiant Earth
A Master ponders his craft
Peter Essick is one of the masters of envionmental photography, having tackled many difficult issues for National Geogaphic stories. He argues that there is a growing awareness that biological systems in our contemporary world are being negatively harmed by rapid human development. This human-altered world is now being called called the Anthropocene, a reference to a geologic age where man has taken control of the Earth’s biosphere.