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For the botanically inclined...following are some images of some of the flora we've managed to photograph and tentatively identify on the way down from Inuvik to Dawson. The Scrophulariaceae are particularly diverse in shape and color on the alpine. Monet would have gone nuts up here, any primitive or abstract artist would. If you're standing up on the tundra or in Muskeg , you feel like you're walking through waves of temperate spring ephemerals - without the trees overhead; and if you're low down, face to the ground, you're looking down into a whole new microcosmic set of dimensions and detail and color that mirror the higher. Fractals!

Thought

People say we are destroying the environment. I beg to differ: I think we're destroying ourselves, and taking most of the environment with us. Example: Global warming is not the issue. Neither is 'biodiversity loss'. It's how we organize ourselves as a species that's the problem. Is our social reality sustainable? No, and here's why: smoke from a machine, 'development' and habitat loss, these are more the symptoms, the physical manifestations (or Entropy) of a deeper societal process which is to increase productivity and profit, i.e., to increase the concentration of power and energy in the hands of a few individuals - at everyone else's expense. Agree to change that imbalance of power, to modify the current power system and install a true democracy where power is shifted from the wallet back to the ballot, to be shared by all, and you will see a lot less smoke. Unknowingly perhaps, you will be agreeing to a sustainable world made of ecological, human societies - without anthropogenic climate change, without species loss. Without war? Onward thru the BS -- as in belief system.

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David Rosane