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Winter view of the Surfrider Beach from Malibu Pier. Photo: Per Håkansson.

The biologist Edward O. Wilson expressed the challenge with modern living in his now famous quote really well:

"The real problem of humanity is we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and god-like technologies.”

It’s this imbalance that is the driver of many of our curre…

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