MOUNTAIN CLUB—7 p.m.; potluck at 6 p.m. “PFAS Toxins in our Food, Water and Soil.” Presented by Bill Mattingly, volunteer chairperson of the Sierra Club Finger Lakes Group. Susquehanna Chapter of the Adirondack Mountain Club at Elm Park United Methodist Church, 401 Chestnut Street, Oneonta. https://susqadk.org/…
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Column by Adrian Kuzminski for November 16, 2018 Can Human Ingenuity Save Us From Perils Of Our Successes? It’s a widespread article of faith that “economic growth” is essential to future prosperity. That’s hardly surprising, since the modern world has been brought into being in less than 200 years by an unprecedented wave of economic growth. If we go back 200 years – to 1818 – we see there were no automobiles, no airplanes, no railroads, no antibiotics, no anesthesia,…