Observer: Spring is the most beautiful season in the Carolinas cool nights and mild days, colored with dogwoods, redbuds and azaleas. Just dont count on your grandchildren enjoying the same beauty.
We think of nature as immutable, but the fossil record shows that the earths environment is very fragile. Perhaps the era of beautiful Carolina springs was changing anyway, but it was changing at an evolutionary pace. Industrialization has significantly accelerated that flux and has launched us into an unprecedented...