What’s the Connection Between Foster Care and the Ecological Stuff?

A reader sends me a letter and gives me permission to reprint it here, because I suspect he’s not the only one with this question:

“I think what you are doing with your family is great, but I feel like you’ve moved away from peak oil and climate change to write about foster care, and I don’t see a connection. I feel bad saying it, but I miss the old stuff. Is there a connection I’m not seeing?”

In some measure this is just a fair cop, in that my subject matter HAS changed as I’ve spent more tim...