…First Nation Arctic community in northern Yukon, Canada. At that time I knew nothing about the forest death that was happening in the southern Yukon. In a recent email to…
…day were by and large from a natural source, including humans. Humans at that time would be fairly quiet, unless it was for ceremonial purposes. Whenever you’re in a natural…
…counters and the cash register, then? For a day, he went around pretending to lick every surface. We laughed. That laughter feels now like a song from a nineteenth-century phonograph….
…What to do for an encore? Suzuki, the daughter of well known Canadian environmentalist and commentator, David Suzuki, was invited back to speak numerous times by the U.N. and continued…
…They [the US Border Patrol] must hate us. It’s their work to capture us, but we are humans. And they don’t treat us like humans. It’s hate, is what it…
https://www.guernicamag.com/is-the-us-border-patrol-committing-crimes-against-humanity/
…the Monster Dogs is a Frankensteinian story about dogs, humans, and the need to know and be known. Written as a biography, it charts the story of a pack of…
…done in the 1930s—and before that, especially in the Australian context, the 1870s to 1890s. The idea of sustainability and self-reliance is often linked with unstable economic times: during the…
…that global financial systems hang in careful balance dependent on the planet’s environmental health—a rare idea for the time. Economists, environmentalists, and social scientists alike have since carried variations of…
https://www.guernicamag.com/katherine-rowland-whole-earth-mental-health/
…searched the Internet, printing out any information on the landfill she could find. During her son’s nap time, she spread the documents out on the kitchen table, leaving the floor…
…the bus. While her younger son watched Sesame Street and ate Cheerios out of a plastic bowl, she searched the Internet, printing out any information on the landfill she could…
…to rethink safety nets. Right now, nets are being spread for the wrong people. But now we have to rethink safety nets. Right now, nets are being spread for the…
People get so mad when something computer generated makes them feel emotional. Humans can make other humans feel things, but when machines do it, it’s creepy….
…that drug companies had access to their prescription-writing history.) These records are purchased from health research companies who get the information from various sources, primarily pharmacy chains. When pharmacies sell…
…tables of the rich was collected and sorted by the zebaleen and fed to the pigs. The pig offal was then hauled away to the compost plant and sold as…
…Pigasus the Immortal, a pig, for President. The pig and six others are arrested. 24 With the detonation of a hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific, France becomes the fifth…
https://www.guernicamag.com/the-family-dolls-featuring-charlie-leslie-more/
…world. According to the Professor, it was Mao who essentially changed China’s relationship to nature. “In the past, Taoists believed that everything in the world, including humans, had to follow…
https://www.guernicamag.com/mary-wang-seeing-through-the-fog/
…years, humans existed in carbon equilibrium with the earth. The carbon cycle was balanced: We existed alongside many other plants, fungi, animals all using carbon for our metabolism, and we…
https://www.guernicamag.com/fitness-how-the-climate-killed-my-children/
…was murmuring a lustful language into her neck, clutching the side of her mosquito net tighter and tighter as he moved. In the blue wet of night, they were naked…
…and eventually the wider internet. As a journalist and former academic, Petersen has a knack for looking critically at, yet writing colloquially about, cultural phenomena—getting at the larger trends, truths,…
https://www.guernicamag.com/miscellaneous-files-anne-helen-peterson/
…Duke, where she earned a law degree and a master’s in political science. After working at the Center for Death Penalty Litigation in Durham, North Carolina, she helped pioneer political…