Kathryn O'Hara

The year 2009 marked the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species. That year also saw the publication of more than 100 titles in English alone commemorating the man and his work. Evolution: The View from the Cottage was not among the…

The world population is growing; developing nations are entering the global marketplace; China wants cars and beef. We are consuming our natural resources at record speed, and half of us are now for the first time ever living in cities. How will we all get enough good air, water, food and shelter to survive? Is war the…

I have a little New Yorker drawing, a cartoon that depicts our Earth looking somewhat puzzled as another bigger orb wearing a doctor’s ophthalmoscope on its head serves up the unsettling diagnosis: “I am afraid you have humans.” No need to point fingers, or get preachy. It is a fact. Our population has doubled in the last 40 years and will likely double again in the next…