Garry Rogers

Quantum physics, rainbow gravity, and my next novel One of the biggest problems with quantum physics - apart from the way it attracts new age woo - is that it doesn’t reconcile with Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. The two don’t meet when it comes to gravity. And so one of the major thrusts of physics since the 1940s has been to find that elusive ‘theory of everything.

Quantum physics, rainbow gravity, and my next novel

One of the biggest problems with quantum physics - apart from the way it attracts new age woo - is that it doesn’t reconcile with Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. The two don’t meet when it comes to gravity. And so one of the major…

The Great Simplification is the Mechanism. The Initiation is the Meaning. We stand at the terminal edge of the Holocene. By now, those of us paying attention to the data know that the era of "green growth" and technological salvation is a delusion. We are beginning to understand what systems theorist Nate Hagens calls "The Great Simplification"—the inevitable thermodynamic correction that occurs as our civilization’s energy subsidy, the "Carbon Pulse," begins to fade.

The Great Simplification is the Mechanism. The Initiation is the Meaning.

We stand at the terminal edge of the Holocene. By now, those of us paying attention to the data know that the era of "green growth" and technological salvation is a delusion. We are beginning to understand what systems…

Five Stars for Biosphere Collapse: Causes and Solutions: A Critical Call for Change The comprehensive 5-star rating confirms that the book successfully navigates the complex space between rigorous science and accessible prose.

Five Stars for Biosphere Collapse: Causes and Solutions: A Critical Call for Change

The comprehensive 5-star rating confirms that the book successfully navigates the complex space between rigorous science and accessible prose.

Visiting Author Lectures "Plot is what happens, but character is why we care."

Visiting Author Lectures

"Plot is what happens, but character is why we care."

This project addresses the profound human need to make sense of rapid environmental change.

The Biosphere Integrity Metric (BIM)

Given the urgency and the availability of global satellite data, the first phase focuses on creating a robust proxy metric – the SPPPI. This index targets a key component of biosphere stress: human pressure on Net Primary Production (NPP), the energy base…

The Refugia Playbook – A Strategy for Local Resilience

Our planet's life support systems are failing, and we cannot fully restore what is being lost. But hope is not gone. We can focus on protecting refugia: special places that resist environmental damage and can act as lifeboats for biodiversity.…

Announcing My Novel: The Maplewood Journals The Maplewood Journals is not a story of despair. It is a testament to human ingenuity and the power of collective action.

Announcing My Novel: The Maplewood Journals

The Maplewood Journals is not a story of despair. It is a testament to human ingenuity and the power of collective action.

Introducing “Biosphere Collapse: Causes and Solutions”

This is a book about facing hard truths. But it is also a book about agency and hope. It outlines a path forward, one that combines technical knowledge, political strategy, and a deeper ethical relationship with the living world.

6: The Final Adaptation — Evolving Our Minds for a Wounded Planet This journey from the external world to the internal may seem like a shift in focus, but it reveals the fundamental truth of the Anthropocene: the crisis of the biosphere is inseparable from the crisis of our own consciousness.

6: The Final Adaptation — Evolving Our Minds for a Wounded Planet

This journey from the external world to the internal may seem like a shift in focus, but it reveals the fundamental truth of the Anthropocene: the crisis of the biosphere is inseparable from the crisis of our own consciousness.

5: Solastalgia and Ecological Grief – The Inner Landscape of a Changing Planet As the world we know changes before our eyes, many of us are experiencing distress that, until recently, had no name.

5: Solastalgia and Ecological Grief – The Inner Landscape of a Changing Planet

As the world we know changes before our eyes, many of us are experiencing distress that, until recently, had no name.

5: The Human Paradox — Our Place in the Cognitive Web Cognition is everywhere in all creatures. But what about us? Human cognition is an extraordinary elaboration of the capacities found throughout the biosphere. Our ability for symbolic language and cultural evolution has allowed us to accumulate and transmit knowledge across generations. This has transformed our species from one among many into a planetary force that is reshaping Earth systems (Henrich 2016; Steffen et al.

5: The Human Paradox — Our Place in the Cognitive Web

Cognition is everywhere in all creatures. But what about us? Human cognition is an extraordinary elaboration of the capacities found throughout the biosphere. Our ability for symbolic language and cultural evolution has allowed us to accumulate…

4: Preserving the Blueprint – The Urgent Mission to Save Knowledge As the biosphere degrades and the risk of social disruption grows, the mission to preserve the blueprint of our knowledge becomes a critical imperative.

4: Preserving the Blueprint – The Urgent Mission to Save Knowledge

As the biosphere degrades and the risk of social disruption grows, the mission to preserve the blueprint of our knowledge becomes a critical imperative.

4: The Value of Thought — How a Thinking Planet Creates a Stable World (This article is part of a series, The Thinking Planet, exploring the universal nature of cognition in the living world. Concepts and examples are drawn from "Silent Earth: Adaptations for Life in a Devastated Biosphere.") So far in the series, we've established that cognition is a universal feature of life. But does it matter for the planet as a whole?

4: The Value of Thought — How a Thinking Planet Creates a Stable World

(This article is part of a series, The Thinking Planet, exploring the universal nature of cognition in the living world. Concepts and examples are drawn from "Silent Earth: Adaptations for Life in a Devastated Biosphere.") So…

3: Rights of Nature – Should Rivers Have a Lawyer? By recognizing the intrinsic value and legal standing of the natural world, we open up entirely new avenues for its defense.

3: Rights of Nature – Should Rivers Have a Lawyer?

By recognizing the intrinsic value and legal standing of the natural world, we open up entirely new avenues for its defense.

3: The Animal Kingdom’s Diverse Minds and the Power of the Crowd (This article is part of a series, The Thinking Planet, exploring the universal nature of cognition in the living world. All concepts and examples are drawn from an analysis of my comprehensive work, "Silent Earth: Adaptations for Life in a Devastated Biosphere.") While plants and microbes show us that a brain isn't required for cognition, the animal kingdom reveals an explosive diversity of minds shaped by evolution.

3: The Animal Kingdom’s Diverse Minds and the Power of the Crowd

(This article is part of a series, The Thinking Planet, exploring the universal nature of cognition in the living world. All concepts and examples are drawn from an analysis of my comprehensive work, "Silent Earth: Adaptations for…

2: The Technosphere – Earth’s New, Unruly ‘Kingdom’ We are no longer simply a species living within nature; we are the architects and unwitting subjects of a new planetary layer, and we have only just understood its unruly dynamics.

2: The Technosphere – Earth’s New, Unruly ‘Kingdom’

We are no longer simply a species living within nature; we are the architects and unwitting subjects of a new planetary layer, and we have only just understood its unruly dynamics.

2: The Brains in the Soil — The Hidden Intelligence of Plants and Microbes (This article is part of a series, The Thinking Planet, exploring the universal nature of cognition in the living world. All concepts and examples are drawn from an analysis of my comprehensive work, "Silent Earth: Adaptations for Life in a Devastated Biosphere.") When we think of intelligence, we picture a brain. But the biosphere operates on a much broader set of rules.

2: The Brains in the Soil — The Hidden Intelligence of Plants and Microbes

(This article is part of a series, The Thinking Planet, exploring the universal nature of cognition in the living world. All concepts and examples are drawn from an analysis of my comprehensive work, "Silent Earth:…

Writing 2 Here's the next romance story: Fire Season: Love in the Time of Climate Change Francis Ralph Graham Controlled Burns (Fall 2023) The video call shattered into blocky squares for the third time in ten minutes. Sam’s face froze mid-sentence, his eyelids locked at half-blink as he described that morning’s precipitation gauges in Sector Nine. The screech of digital static crackled through Mia’s headphones.

The second short story in the "Fire Season: Love in the Time of Climate Change" series.

1: The Harsh Reality – Why Full Restoration Is No Longer an Option Restoring Nature A noble and understandable impulse urges us to restore the planet to its former glory, yet a clear-eyed look at the evidence suggests this may be beyond our grasp.

1: The Harsh Reality – Why Full Restoration Is No Longer an Option

Restoring Nature A noble and understandable impulse urges us to restore the planet to its former glory, yet a clear-eyed look at the evidence suggests this may be beyond our grasp.

1, More Than Instinct—Uncovering Nature’s Hidden Cognition What if the ability to sense, process information, and respond to it is not a rare gift but a fundamental characteristic of life itself?

1, More Than Instinct—Uncovering Nature’s Hidden Cognition

What if the ability to sense, process information, and respond to it is not a rare gift but a fundamental characteristic of life itself?

Transportation Adaptation to Climate Change The scale of climate impacts on transportation infrastructure is staggering. Research by the American Society of Civil Engineers projects that climate-related damages will surpass $1 trillion by 2050 (ASCE 2021).

Transportation Adaptation to Climate Change

The scale of climate impacts on transportation infrastructure is staggering. Research by the American Society of Civil Engineers projects that climate-related damages will surpass $1 trillion by 2050 (ASCE 2021).

Writing When I started writing fiction, I read books, articles, blog posts, and Internet commentaries on writing techniques. I joined local writer groups and writing circles, and I followed hundreds of writers and groups on the Internet. I created an elaborate backstory for a world like Earth except that human-like intelligence was always present in all higher organisms. After I published the first novels, I repeated what I had learned about writing in blog posts and school lectures and learned even more from readers and writers.

This is a trial application of my methods booklet on Romance Short Stories. True climate-change fiction.

Intersection Of Human Environmental Solutions and Impacts An analysis of peer-reviewed research on climate change and its effects on human civilization suggests that while positive developments in technology and policy may prevent the absolute worst-case warming scenarios, they are unlikely to be deployed fast enough to avoid irreversible damage to key global ecosystems.

Intersection Of Human Environmental Solutions and Impacts

An analysis of peer-reviewed research on climate change and its effects on human civilization suggests that while positive developments in technology and policy may prevent the absolute worst-case warming scenarios, they are unlikely to be…

Ocasio-Cortez raised $9.6 million in three months, smashing her own record It’s a massive haul for the progressive lawmaker who has been barnstorming the country with Bernie Sanders.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pulled in a massive fundraising haul amid progressive calls for her to launch a 2028 primary challenge against Sen. Chuck Schumer

I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday.

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AOC: What they like to call as radical, I believe is common sense.

I believe that when a person gets sick, they shouldn’t go bankrupt in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Common sense

I believe that a minimum wage should cover the minimum cost to live. Common sense...

Why is Trump’s Commerce secretary urging the public to buy Tesla stock? Howard Lutnick told a national television audience to buy a specific stock tied to the sitting president’s top campaign donor.

"If Lutnick's Democratic predecessor, Gina Raimondo, took such a step -- urging Americans to buy stock in a company led by Joe Biden’s top campaign contributor -- it seems likely that more than a few congressional Republicans would call for her resignation..."
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage