Desertification

No, this is not a good thing where everything in the world that sucks, like Brussel sprouts and pickles are slowly turning into desserts like ice cream sundaes and chocolate chip cookies. Instead it's a very bad thing in which all the arable land in the world is turning to death causing deserts. It's our fault, but no one has been able to figure out exactly why. We thought we knew, but then, surprise, changing to a different model that should have fixed it did nothing, and in fact made it worse.

I feel like that is often how things go with humanity. Worse yet, we then get all dogmatic about it and insist that the solution that doesn't work is the only solution and maybe if we just did it longer and harder, then it will start fixing things. We just don't like to circle back and examine the evidence for some reason.

So, let me share this TED Talk with you. I found it to be so exciting that it almost induced tears. Of course, I'm a Californian (even if I now live in Texas) so environmentalism is ingrained in us from a very young age. Go Earth!!!