Michael Powell
Michael Powell is a native New Yorker and New York bureau chief of the Washington Post. He graduated from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism with a master’s degree. He has worked at the Burlington Free Press, New York Newsday, The New York Observer and, since 1996, the Washington Post, where he covered former Mayor Marion Barry and wrote on national politics and science and culture for the Style Section. He moved back to New York for the Post just before September 11, 2001, and has since written of terror, politics, the intelligent design battles, and all matter of mayhem large and small.
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The Washington Post
The End of Eden: James Lovelock Says This Time We’ve Pushed the Earth Too FarThrough a deep and tangled wood lies a glade so lovely and wet and lush as to call to mind a hobbit’s sanctuary. A lichen-covered statue rises in a garden of native grasses, and a misting rain drips off a slate roof. At the yard’s edge a plump muskrat waddles into the brush.
A lean, white-haired gentleman in a blue wool sweater and khakis beckons you inside his whitewashed cottage. We sit beside a stone hearth as his wife, Sandy, an elegant blonde, sets out scones and tea. James Lovelock fixes his mind’s eye on what’s to come.
Why is that?
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