Cool Footnote: The I Ching and Acid Rain

Or: Why I have no sympathy for libertarian devils.

Which one of these things is not like the other?

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The I Ching of Goddess

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Death and the I Ching

The I Ching on Love, Karma and Destiny

The I Ching of Management: An Age-Old Study for New Age Managers

The Golf Ching: Golf Guidance and Wisdom from the I Ching

The I Ching and Acid Rain

The first nine titles are cited in Richard J. Smith’s How the Book of Changes Arrived in the West. The last one I found on my own just a few hours ago while scrolling through the U.C. Berkeley library’s enormous catalogue of I Ching (aka Yi Jing aka Book of Changes) – related holdings. The acid rain callout caught my attention not just because of the idiosyncratic juxtaposition of the Chinese oracular classic with an environmental plague that once threatened serious damage to the forests and waterways of North America, but also because I recognized the name of the author, Peter Huber, as a person I once had a very frustrating encounter with back in the late 1990s.