Kristine Mattis
Kristine Mattis holds a Ph.D. in Environment and Resources. She is no relation to the mad-dog general. Email: k_mattis@outlook.com
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Views Saturday, December 21, 2019 The Climate Emergency Needs No Holidays For the past twenty five years or more, I generally have not celebrated holidays, at least not in any traditional sense. There are a variety of reasons that I opted out of these festivities, some deeply personal. Mostly, I could not abide the existential emptiness of trying to connect with others... Read more |
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Views Friday, May 31, 2019 Fantasy and Fatality in the Facebook Era Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.—James Baldwin Seven weeks ago, my father died—abruptly, unexpectedly, and prematurely. I say that as a simple matter of fact because despite my utter heartbreak, no amount of euphemisms or platitudes will... Read more |
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Views Friday, March 01, 2019 There’s Nothing Radical About the Green New Deal We are at the precipice of ecological collapse. There are no two ways about it. And despite what you hear, it is about far more than just catastrophic climate change. In a nutshell, our current biological predicament is the result of overuse of natural resources beyond their capacity to regenerate... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, December 19, 2018 An Economy That Does Not Consider Ecology Is Not Sustainable Have you ever noticed that economics dominates our news? All day long we hear reports on the Dow and NASDAQ. There are business sections of newspapers. Television and radio news includes market reports, financial reports, and money reports. Segments of major news programs are dedicated to economics... Read more |
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Views Friday, October 26, 2018 Eco Crises: Doom & Gloom, Truth & Consequences We can't save the world by playing by the rules because the rules have to change. Everything needs to change and it has to start today….To all the politicians that pretend to take the climate question seriously, to all of you who know but choose to look the other way every day because you seem more... Read more |
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Views Friday, September 28, 2018 What Brett Doesn't Know: Ten Lesson From the Ford-Kavanaugh Hearings The Brett Kavanaugh hearings proved to be yet another shameless foray into political theatre – not much more than a spectacle of the utmost proportions. Surrounding one highly credible and candid witness (Christine Blasey Ford), we saw self-serving members of Congress jockeying for future positions... Read more |
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Views Monday, September 10, 2018 When Selling Out Is Not a Sacrifice The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism. — Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. You show me a capitalist; I’ll show you a bloodsucker. — Malcolm X Has enough time elapsed that we can finally speak frankly about all of the hoopla over a cynical sneaker endorsement... Read more |
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Views Sunday, August 12, 2018 Dying of Consumption While Guzzling Snake Oil: The Environment Crisis Requires Overhauling Our Corporate Industrial Civilization We’re an egoistical, delusional lot, us humans. We’re the only species on the planet who despoils its own life support system and who does not live within biological limits. Does that make us the most intelligent or least intelligent species? Charlatan academics, ecomodernists, and tech giants... Read more |
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Views Sunday, June 24, 2018 Dispatches from the War on Cancer: Detection as Prevention, Chronic Disease as Cure Ten years ago on June 25, 2008, I was diagnosed with colon cancer. My grandmother passed away the night before. She was just two weeks shy of her 96 th birthday. I had planned to spend it with her. Instead, I re-routed the frequent flier miles I was to use for that visit to a plane ticket for my... Read more |
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Views Thursday, May 10, 2018 The Game Never Named, the Addendum Never Spoken Remember that silly game we used to play with fortune cookies from Chinese restaurants? Maybe people still play it. It’s the one where you read your fortune and tack on “… in bed” to the end of the sentence – like, “You will soon meet a mysterious stranger … in bed.” The supplemental phrase usually... Read more |