JUST A MOMENT!


Dear HCN,


Thanks to Ed Marston for critiquing both Gregg Easterbrook’s A Moment on the Earth (HCN, 5/29/95) and the gaffes of environmentalists.


A friend from Philadelphia tells me that the leaf pictured on the book’s cover is a Norway maple – a weedy tree species currently wreaking havoc in Eastern woodlands. An image picked to symbolize regeneration actually epitomizes one of the major causes of declining ecosystems: that of introduced plants crowding out the habitat-providing natives. Apparently Easterbrook truly can’t tell the forest from the trees.

Michael Leccese


Boulder, Colorado

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Just a moment!

by Michael Leccese, High Country News
July 24, 1995

<h1>Just a moment!</h1> <p class="byline">by Michael Leccese, High Country News <br />July 24, 1995</p> <p>JUST A MOMENT!</p> <p>Dear<br /> HCN,</p> <p>Thanks to Ed Marston for critiquing both<br /> Gregg Easterbrook’s A Moment on the Earth (HCN, 5/29/95) and the<br /> gaffes of environmentalists.</p> <p>A friend from<br /> Philadelphia tells me that the leaf pictured on the book’s cover is<br /> a Norway maple – a weedy tree species currently wreaking havoc in<br /> Eastern woodlands. An image picked to symbolize regeneration<br /> actually epitomizes one of the major causes of declining<br /> ecosystems: that of introduced plants crowding out the<br /> habitat-providing natives. Apparently Easterbrook truly can’t tell<br /> the forest from the<br /> trees.</p> <p>Michael<br /> Leccese</p> <p>Boulder,<br /> Colorado</p> <div class="wp-block-group hcn-print-edition-box"> <p>This article appeared in the <a href="/?p=189186">print edition of the magazine</a> with the headline <span class="hcn-magtitle">Just a moment!</span>.</p> </p></div> <p>This <a target="_blank" href="https://www.hcn.org/issues/issue-39/just-a-moment/">article</a> first appeared on <a target="_blank" href="https://www.hcn.org">High Country News</a> and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.<img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.hcn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-HCN_Logo-Monogram_White_Sq-2.png?fit=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1" style="width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;"><img id="republication-tracker-tool-source" src="https://www.hcn.org/?republication-pixel=true&post=113753&amp;ga4=G-0NS3WVPPTN" style="width:1px;height:1px;"></p> Copy to Clipboard

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