A former grassroots organizer and librarian, Chip Ward, TomDispatch regular, writes from Torrey, Utah. He is the author of two books, Canaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in the West and Hope’s Horizon: Three Visions for Healing the American Land. His essays can be found by clicking here. To listen to Timothy MacBain’s latest TomCast audio interview in which Ward discusses global ‘weirding,’ click here, or download it to your iPod here.