Monday, April 16, 2012  Pillage, Plunder & Pollute, LLC  My
"treetise", which has been accepted for publication in the new
magazine from the Coming Crisis website that will debut next
month, can be downloaded today(!) from DropBox as a pdf.  The
subtitle is:  A Global Glut of Invisible Trace Gases is
Destroying Life on Earth.  [Update:  for people who are having
trouble downloading the pdf or just want a paperback copy, it is
available now too(!) and can be ordered by clicking here.  NO
guarantees as to quality of printing, I have only seen an online
proof.  But it looks okay.]  The painting on the cover is
Bruegel's "Fall of Icarus".  It seems like such a simple
depiction of the myth, and I was surprised to learn that its
most minor attribute is infused with fulsome meaning.
 In Peasant Imagery and Bruegel's “Fall of Icarus” (link) Robert
Baldwin elucidates a richly textured and erudite analysis.  The
entire essay is a delight to read - following are some excerpts
that I particularly liked (no quote marks -