Last Tuesday evening mathematician Charles Hadlock offered an excellent lecture -- "Sustainability and Collapse" -- at the MAA Carriage House. Hadlock's presentation offered examples and arguments from his recently published book, Six Sources of Collapse (MAA, 2012). This must-read book describes investigation into common dynamics of disaster processes from the extinction of the passenger pigeon to the Chernobyl accident to extreme weather and . . .
My lingering thoughts about Hadlock's engaging lecture led me to look for poems related to sustainability and collapse. From my bookshelf I pulled Making Certain It Goes On: The Collected Poems of Richard Hugo (Norton, 1984) and found this poem of collapse and counting:
Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg by Richard Hugo (1923 - 1982)
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Friday, May 10, 2013
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