Chaos Is What Killed the Dinosaurs, Darling

Today Jonathan Schwarz at A Tiny Revolution linked to an article by the eminent journalist Orville Schell, on America as a "can't-do" nation. What stuck in my mind about this mostly forgettable article (anyone who uses the phrase "tipping point" without reference to cows should not be taken seriously) was this part:Lately, I’ve been studying the climate-change induced melting of glaciers in the