Author: W.H. (Wade) Johnson
Novelist, author of the Ancestors series of books (and many other things), husband, father, grandfather, amateur genealogist, shamelessly bad fair-weather golfer, retired IT professional and traveler in time.
How Human Beings Almost Vanished From Earth In 70,000 B.C.
October 22, 2012 ROBERT KRULWICH Robert Krulwich/NPR Add all of us up, all 7 billion human beings on earth, and clumped together we weigh roughly 750 billion pounds. That, says Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson, is more than 100 times the biomass of any large animal that's ever walked the Earth. And we're still multiplying. Most demographers… Continue reading How Human Beings Almost Vanished From Earth In 70,000 B.C.
Leftover People
There is no light so bright to cleanse this shame Condemned to suffer by a plight of birth The cold and bleakest dark where burns no flame Abandoned, ignored your suffering claim Leftover human, savage of no worth There is no light so bright to cleanse this shame This shame is mine by many other… Continue reading Leftover People
Organism
Made live from common seed, we grew first sight Since before the monkeys, bleak pools and slime We are Organism, we draw first light Consuming all good life on earth like blight A plague, a plague upon the earth, our crime Made live from common seed, we grew first sight Like mutant virus, sustenance by… Continue reading Organism
