United States, Author 1947
Eugene Linden is an American author of several non-fiction books on science, technology, the environment, and humanity's relationship with Nature. He was educated at Yale University. He lives in Nyack, New York.
In an age in which economists take for granted that people equate well-being with consumption, increasing numbers of people seem willing to trade certain freedoms and material comforts for a sense of immutable order and the rapture of faith.
Traveling can never be taken for granted, no matter how meticulous the preparations.
Time and again our best and brightest have alerted society to looming problems, but our persistent pattern has been to ignore the warnings and suffer the consequences. The pathetic refrain of recent years --'Nobody saw this coming'--is always a self-serving lie.
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