[Editor’s Note: This post is the first of six guest posts from Anthony Chaney that will be appearing every other Saturday.  Anthony teaches history and writing at the University of North Texas at Dallas. He is the author of Runaway: Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind, and the Rise of Ecological Consciousness due out on October 2 from The University of North Carolina Press. His research interests are environmental thought and history, and the contents and methods of environmental humanities. He’s also been a fairly frequent guest blogger for us in the past.– Ben Alpers] Allen Ginsberg first heard about global Read more