Bush Pilot and Author Offers Presentations in St. Michaels and Easton, April 22, 23

Bush Pilot and Best-selling Author Dr. George Erickson will make two different presentations this week, the first in St. Michaels and the second in Easton.

Dr. Erickson details four decades of adventure in Canada and Alaska with his presentation “True North: Exploring the Great wilderness by Bush Plane” at the Talbot County Free Library – St. Michael’s Branch, April 22nd at 7 PM. The presentation is based on his best-selling book ‘True North: Exploring the Great Wilderness by Bush Plane’ and its sequel, Back to the Barrens: On the Wing with da Vinci & Friends.

Erickson will recount the amazing events and people he’s encountered. Flying solo in his Tundra Cub, he has dipped a wing to polar bears, landed in the midst of musk ox and caribou herds, and searched the tundra for clues to the disappearance of a long-missing priest. He’s flown beneath flaring northern lights, over forest fires and dealt with a dying engine.

He will also present “Thorium Nuclear Power: Climate Change Killer for the 21st Century” at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at Easton 7:00 PM on Wednesday, April 23rd.

Dr. Erickson will urge that because of climate change we must drastically reduce our use of carbon-based fuels and (despite Fukushima), switch to modern, safe, highly efficient nuclear power, a Thorium Reactor, which creates no carbon dioxide. He will argue that nuclear power has a safety record 4000 times better than oil. He will also describe the Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) and the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR), as well as comment on the pluses and minuses of alternatives like solar and wind.

Dr. Erickson is a member of the Thorium Energy Alliance, the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Sierra Club, the Nature Conservancy, and is a former Vice President of the American Humanist Association.  His website is www.tundracub.com.

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